On 3/3/08, Daniel Burrows <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Mar 02, 2008 at 08:27:15PM +1100, hce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard > to say: > > > On 3/2/08, Andrei Popescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > You can try to connect via dhcp by running 'dhclient' as root. That > > > might give some clues. If it works just revert your config. Sometimes > > > the 'allow-hotplug' directive doesn't work correctly, you can try 'auto' > > > instead. > > > > I changed to "audo", it sitll does not work. But, if I start dhclient > > manually, it works fine. I checked ps, there was a dhclient3 running. > > Could that cause the problem? How can I config /etc/init.d to make the > > dhclient running? > > > There are a number of different dhcp clients in Debian; dhclient3, > dhclient, and pump are three that come to mind immediately. > Theoretically, all of them should always work, but I've sometimes seen > cases where one or another would fail in a particular network.
I believe that the dhclient3 on my machine cuased the problem. I need to change it to dhclient. > ifupdown will pick a DHCP client using a built-in order of preference > (see interfaces(5)). You can override this by adding a "client" line to > the interface configuration: for instance, it sounds like "client dhclient" > might help your situation. Which file in Debian I should change for the reference? I checked /etc/network/interfaces it has only following lines: auto eth0 iface eth0 inet dhcp Where should I add client dhclient? Thank you. Kind Regards, Jim -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
