OK, I'm going to assume you set both linux boxes up the same way, probably
using the default services. You might want to check to see that pump is
running (in terminal, type: top "pump" should be listed, or dhcpcd if you
chose to install that instead).
In the configuration, have you given the workstation a name with a
convention different from the one that does lease an IP from the router?
If you take the 1st linux box off the LAN, and try to put the "4th" one in
it's place (the one that can't get an IP)... does this machine get the
lease? Or is it still dead?
Have you tried using linuxconf to configure the NIC on the "4th" linux box?
If not, try going to Basic Host Configuration, and selecting eth0 on that
machine... leave everything blank--even the host name--and just select
activate at boot, and DHCP.
If all else seems fine, here's an embarrassing move that must get me at
least once a month--check the cable to see that you haven't put one in with
a short or a break in it. I really can't count how many times I've installed
a workstation and fuss around for an hour or so thinking I've made a
configuration error, and it's the damned cable.
Let me know what happens...
--Greg (I don't need my last initial here, do I? You know you're not me!)
----- Original Message -----
From: "gcobb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Greg Stewart
> > Sent: Monday, October 09, 2000 6:52 AM
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: Re: [newbie] Two systems....
>
> > Your description is a bit vague, please diagram your setup... are all
your
> > machines DHCP within a LAN? Or, is this an attempt to establish DHCP
> > assignmet through a DSL/Cable ISP? Is your router the only server
> > doing DHCP assignment?
>
> I have a cable modem with a Linksys router behind it feeding 3 systems.
The
> 4th was going to be another Linux box. The router does DHCP with internal
> addressing.
>
> > What steps did you take to set up the NICs? Did you do this manually, in
> > DrakConf, LinuxConf? What networks cards are you using? Does you
> > router have > enough IPs in the block to satisfy all the clients? Are
> these IPs
> > "real" or > masqued/internal-block IPs?
>
> Upon install the 3C509 cards were installed. I just had to select 3C509
on
> the Kernel mode field. I got an address subsequent to that point, so the
> system was in working order. I have more than enough addresses to hand
out.
>
> I couldn't get the second system to get an address while the first one was
> running.
> The card wouldn't initialize on boot because it couldn't get an address.
>
> If I put another Windows system in its place I can get a 4th IP.
>
> Thanks
>
>
>
> > --Greg S.
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "gcobb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >
> >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I have a Mandrake system and two Windows systems on a network.
> > I want to
> > > add a second Mandrake system but I'm not able to get DCHP on the Linux
> > > system that comes up last. If I turn one system off I can get
> > an IP, but
> > > not on both at the same time. They don't have the same system
> > name, FQDN
> > or
> > > NETBIOS name but are on the same domain.
> > >
> > > Is there a simple step I missed somewhere along the way that
> > should allow
> > me
> > > to use both at the same time. I am also behind a router that uses
> > internal
> > > DHCP addressing.
> > >
> > >
> > > Thanks!
> > > -Greg-
> > >
> > >
> >
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