[lug] DHCP whining...

[Ralf Mattes]

On Wed, 12 Apr 2000, Alan Robertson wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I've been trying to get DHCP going on my SuSE 6.3 laptop.  I have fixed
> IP address enet going fine.  But, when it comes to DHCP, I'm clueless.
> 
> I reconfigured things with yast to use dhcp, but so far no luck.
> 
> eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 08:00:46:05:DB:47
>           UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
>           RX packets:147 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>           TX packets:0 errors:2372 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
>           collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
>           Interrupt:9 Base address:0x5000
>                                               
> 
> I run dhclient, but when it tries to send packets on eth0, I get this:
>  
> DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 3
> send_packet: No such device    
> 
> So...  What am I doing wrong?  ifconfig shows eth0 as present.
> 


DHCP needs to send out his request to 255.255.255.255 (as the
message tells you). Is this address reachable via eth0 (you didn't
show us the routing). You need at least a host route to this
address.

 Ralf

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