Thus spake Michael Patterson: > > Yesterday I finally got my cable modem (Adelphia). Hooked it up to windows, > and it worked wonderfully. I was told that, in general, Adelphia doesn't > change the IP information, and it would be safe to copy it to the Debian > box. So I wrote down the information, moved the cable modem over to my > debian box, and set it up. > > It worked for about 2 hours. Presumably, the DHCP server switched my > information on me. > > So I installed the dhcp-client package and set it up. Didn't work. So I > removed that package and tried dhcpcd, which I actually had documents for. > That didn't work either. > > > Here's the information I have. It's somewhat sparse, but it's all that I > could find. (information seperated by ----) > > ---- > # /etc/network/interfaces -- configuration file for ifup(8), ifdown(8) > > # The loopback interface > iface lo inet loopback > > # The first network card - this entry was created during the Debian > installation > # (network, broadcast and gateway are optional) > > iface eth0 inet dhcp > hostname "cy119366-a" > #leasehours 1 > #leasetime 3600 > > ---- > white:/etc/dhcpc# more config > # List here the interface that the dhcpcd daemon should use. > # The default is to assign an IP address to eth0. > # If you want to disable the daemon, enter "none" here. > IFACE=eth0 > > # Add options here, examples are: > # OPTIONS='-h "foo"' set hostname (needed by some cablemodem > providers) > # OPTIONS='-l 12345' set leasetime > OPTIONS='-h cy119366-a' > ---- > syslog: > Oct 31 00:03:14 white dhcpcd[274]: timed out waiting for a valid DHCP server > response > ---- > > Also, ifconfig doesn't show eth0. When I was running DHCP-client, eth0 did > show up, but without an IP address (not even 0.0.0.0, which is what I was > lead to believe would happen). > > dhcpcd doesn't show up in a ps, and when run manually eventually exits > without any output. > > > All help is appreciated. > > --Mike
Mike - I'm doing this from memory, as I'm not at home, but I think trying a couple things might help get you somewhere. Try setting interfaces to static again and restarting your network - does it come up? If so they haven't actually changed your IP. Just because it's a DHCP server, doesn't mean they always change it (I don't want to include stuff you already know - just trying to cover bases). If that doesn't work, try setting it back to dhcp and include the word auto - that'll bring it up at boot and so on. Then I think the dhcp-client package is the one you want - dhcpd includes tools for serving dhcp, AFAICR. In /etc/dhcp<something - c? client? not sure>.conf you'll want to put your hostname. Then try restarting your network, and check your logs. Good luck, Steve -- "Don't discount flying pigs before you have good air defense." -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
