On Monday 21 January 2002 03:30 pm, you wrote: > Previous to the recent switchover from @Home's network to Comcast's own > network, > I assigned my firewall machine a static IP address and everything worked > fine. However, > now I've got to use DHCP to lease a dynamically assigned address from the > network. > I can't get this to work. I keep getting back the message "timed out > waiting for a valid > DHCP server response". My DHCP client is dhcpcd. I live in Howard > county, in the > Baltimore, MD area. I've tried this using both Mandrake 8.0 and 8.1. Has > anyone had > success getting this to work?
Setting a static IP probably won't work once they are fully converted, but I find that sometimes my original setup works and other times I have to use the command line to activate dhcpcd and get connected. Try 'man dhcpcd' and see if that helps. --matt
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