[NTLUG:Discuss] if you can stand any more on dhcpcd

[Tom McDonald]

On Tue, 13 Aug 2002 17:40:13 -0500
Fred James <fredjame at concentric.net> wrote:

> Please understand that all other machines on my LAN are doing fine and 
> reaching any network they need to (ATT and VPN)
> It is only my laptop that cannot - so the network is OK, just the laptop 
> not getting a good IP
> 
> When I have the problem, the laptop cannot get to anything - LAN or WAN 
> - cannot get to my other local computers, or printers, cannot get to 
> ATT, cannot get to VPN.
> 
> Repeating an earlier message, what I did to fix it this evening was the 
> following two commands, as root, in a terminal window on the laptop:
>    dhcpcd -k eth0
>    dhcpcd -n -H eth0
> and then all was right and running smooth again.
> 

Shouldn't you be running dhclient instead of dhcpd?

Tom
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Tom McDonald <tom at compuclaim.com>
Compuclaim Inc.


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