On Wed, 14 Jul 1999, Matthew A Stegman wrote:
> Ah-ha! At last, oh long last, I have Internet access from Linux once
> again! Ah, I am filled with elation, joy, happiness, etc.
>
> I think I managed to upgrade the DHCP client, but I'm not sure. I booted
> into Windows, jotted down the info, then hit the reset button, went into
> Linux, set it up for a static IP, and when I exited netconf, everything
> worked great! Well, I thought, at least I'll have a few hours- until the
> lease expires at 2:30 this morning.
>
> I fooled around on the net for a while, then found a DCHP-mini-HOWTO
> (I'd looked for one before, but never found it until tonight). It gave a
> couple URLs for a DHCP client- dhcpcd. I downloaded ver 1.3.17, which I
> was instructed to use with 2.2.x kernels. After installation, I ran it.
> My connection was immediately lost. Aw, crap, I said to myself. Now I
> have to restart the eth0 interface. At least I don't have to reboot (as
> if I were in Windows).
>
> On a whim, I decided to try DHCP through netconf again. I removed the IP,
> gateway, DNS, etc. and exited. Upon activating the changes...
>
> I can ping www.linuxmandrake.com! I can telnet to my University's system!
>
> I decided to press my luck, and typed 'pump -i eth0 -R' (renew the IP
> lease). It worked, too!
IIRC, pump and dhcpcd wren't intended to be used together
> > On or about line 86 in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ip{up|down}
> >
> > replace /usr/sbin/pump -i $DEVICE
> > with /usr/sbin/punp -i $DEVICE -h $HOSTNAME
> > Sorry i can't test it, the @home techs here aren't smart enough to etup
> > dhcp which is more than fine with me
Yes I ment /sbin/pump
> I hope you meant to say '/sbin/pump' because /usr/sbin/pump (or punp) does
> not exist on my system. Even so, if I read the pump man page right, then
> you're just having me request a specific hostname. How does this help?
> If I can't get a server-assigned IP address in the first place, how
> could I get a specific, client-requested one?
> Also, in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifdown the command was
> pump -r -i ${DEVICE}
> So, I appended '-h ${HOSTNAME}' instead. May I ask what the braces do?
What version initscripts do you have? I don't think that -r belongs there
Maybe a bash wizard can fill this in more but the braces determine scope,
global or local to the function or file, and such. I'm sure it's
documented somewhere.
The -h is needed for broken dhcpd's
(this is from man dhcpcd but the bug is still relevent)
"-h hostname
specifies a string used for the hostname option field when dhcpcd
sends DHCP messages. Some DHCP servers require the hostname
option field containing a specific string in the DHCP messages from clients."
also IIRC, it's not so much a specific string just anything but NULL
> Thanks, everyone, for your help. It is refreshing to be using Linux on
> the 'net again.
>
> -Matt Stegman
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
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