On 26 Aug, paul johnson wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I cannot get DHCP (Pump) to assign me an address on my Mandrake 6.
> machine at work. The machine is dual-bootable with WinNT 4.0. When
> booting in NT I get an address no problem. The machine is a Thinkpad
> with a 3Com PCMCIA 3C589D-TP. The DHCP server is WinNT 4.0 server on
> the far side of a 56k frame relay WAN link.
>
> If I assign the card a static address it works fine in Mandrake but I
> need DHCP.
>
> Any suggestions? Thanks for the help.
>
> P.S. I searched the newbie archives and didn't find anything relevant.
There should be something in there... I had this problem when setting
up my cable modem. It was fixed by adding a hostname request to the
pump command line, i.e. `pump -i eth0 -h whatever`. It doesn't seem to
matter is you request any specific hostname, just that you do request
one.
To get this to happen all the time, edit
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifup
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifdown
Look for
pump -i $INTERFACE
change it to
pump -i $INTERFACE -h $HOSTNAME
One of these (I think ifdown) has braces around the variable name, i.e.
"-i ${INTERFACE}" so add "-h ${HOSTNAME}" here. As an added bonus for
using Linux instead of Windows, you don't even have to reboot! Just run
pump again, including the hostname request:
[root@localhost root]# pump -i eth0 -h dhcp11.yourdomain.com
[root@localhost root]# ifconfig
See if eth0 is up now! Hopefully this will solve your problem- it
solved mine!
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-Matt Stegman
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