dhcpcd doesn't run automatically after emerge... [SOLVED]

boojummy · Last edited by boojummy on Mon May 03, 2004 2:13 am; edited 1 time in total

Hello,

I'm pretty ignorant when it comes to networking, so I need a little help finding the source of this problem.

Basically, after doing an emerge world (and a reboot), my networking stopped working. I verified that the machine was still plugged in, that the machine still recognized the NIC, that the module still loaded OK (sungem on ppc). But any attempt to actually use the networking (e.g., ping [host]) would return a "network unreachable" error.

It occurred to me that there might be a DHCP problem, so I told dhcpcd to renew the lease manually ('dhcpcd -n'). Voila! Networking works. Turns out it wasn't getting an address on startup. However, every time I restart the machine, I have to rerun 'dhcpcd -n' to get my networking going again. Seems that some configuration information must have gotten wiped out somewhere.

Can anyone tell me how to reconfigure my machine to use dhcp every time it boots?

Thanks,

-b

jjasghar · Posted: Mon May 03, 2004 1:44 am Post subject:

rc-upate show

to see if it's part if the default runlevel

if not--> rc-upate add dhcpcd default

also-----> /etc/init.d/net.eth0 start

if your eth0 goes down at any time
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boojummy · Posted: Mon May 03, 2004 2:13 am Post subject:

Aha, after poking around a little, I realized that I am an idiot. There was no /etc/init.d/dhcpcd initscript, but there was a dhcp one. However, my guess is that's if I want to run a dhcp server, not a client.

So I looked through the net.eth0 initscript, and I saw this, at the top: