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uzik
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PostPosted: Thu Apr 24, 2003 4:46 pm    Post subject: dhcp setup question Reply with quote

Good afternoon all:

I built and configured the latest version of Gentoo from a stage3
livecd. I had it working great with a static IP. I found I could get
a better deal replacing my isdn with a cable modem. I built a Freesco
router box and it works just fine with my Windoz box but Gentoo
keeps saying the address it's requesting is invalid. From what I can
see in the log on the freesco box it is.

I'm not very knowlegable about DHCP but I thought it asked
the server for the address not the other way around. I have
my network config setup like this:

# For DHCP set iface_eth? to "dhcp"
# For passing options to dhcpcd use dhcpcd_eth?
#
iface_eth0="dhcp"
#dhcpcd_eth0=""

all the gateway, etc. options are commented out.
freesco has 10.0.0.2 - 10.0.0.9 reserved for dhcp clients.

Any suggestions?

yeah, I know, "switch back to static ip's" ;)
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PostPosted: Thu Apr 24, 2003 5:32 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

It is quite possible that dhcp is trying to use stale cache and info files from the /etc/dhcpc/ directory. You may want to delete them and restart dhcp and see if that makes a difference.
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PostPosted: Thu Apr 24, 2003 8:08 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I guess it's using the last known good address to establish communication
to request the new address? I thought that was done via udp. Guess I should
go find some docs on dhcp!

I'll give it a try, thanks!

I tried Mandrake and wasn't happy with it. Someone suggested
Gentoo and I'm glad he did. The user community here seems to
be very knowledgable and willing to help out with stupid questions.
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