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Paul,
Try not giving it a
gateway address. If you give it a gateway, it will assume that all the
other ethernet configuration is supplied, such as the IP and subnet. But
if nothing is filled in, it will take the user supplied information (nothing)
over the server supplied information (correct IP, subnet, dns, etc). If
you choose DHCP, do not give it any other information.
The box will send
out a general DHCP get request and if the Sygate server is the only server that
is listening to those requests, then it will send a reply with the supplied
information (IP, Subnet, Gateway, DNS, etc.).
Chad
-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Paul Sharp Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2002 9:46 PM To: Mandrake Subject: [newbie] DHCP client Hi,
From a brand new newbie to Mandrake.
Previously used
Caldera. Have a Microsoft network
neighborhood at home
with half dozen computers and an old Pentium 233
box
running win98 and Sygate Home Network as a
gateway
with a cable modem.
Goal to replace that gateway with a linux box
eventually.
But for now I am in a Linux network class and I am
trying
get a Mandrake Linux box to work as a client on the
existing
network.
Configured the network card with draknet in
Xwindows. Set it up with no IP or mask and the DHCP box checked. Gave it the gateway address of 192.168.0.1
where the Sygate resides. Sygate provides a
DHCP server at that address.
It all ends up with eth0 running but it never gets
an IP address assigned to it. However, when the dhcpcd starts up it gets
valid information from Sygate which appears in
/etc/dhcpc/dhcpcd-eth0.info Some how
something is missing because this info never shows up in the Linux routing
table or in the info provided by ifconfig -a for eth0
and thus there in no network access.
If I configure with a static IP address
such as 192.168.0.33
I have Internet access and can browse the
web.
What is missing??
Regards
Paul
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- [newbie] DHCP client Paul Sharp
- Chad
