Re: Still No Connectivity

From: nikoli (nickholum_at_cox.net)
Date: 12/10/03 

Date: Tue, 09 Dec 2003 18:23:57 -0600

sktsee wrote:

>nikoli <nickholum@cox.net> wrote in message news:<XypBb.93755$yJ.46916@okepread02>...
>
>
>
>>I've tried taking the router out completely and just going straight to
>>the cable modem. I get the same result and I get the same IP of
>>192.168.0.102... that shouldn't be there because the router isn't there
>>to issue that IP. The cable modem should give it a 68.x.x.x IP. I don't
>>have any firewall running... I'm really clueless as to why I can't pull
>>an IP here.
>>
>>
>
>If you are using dhcpcd as your dhcp client, then try looking in
>/var/lib/dhcpcd. This directory contains dhcpcd's cache of the network
>settings it receives from the dhcp server. To clear the cache, enter
>dhcpcd -k on the command line (as root). This should kill dhcpcd and
>destroy the cache. If for some reason it doesn't work, kill dhcpcd
>manually (killall dhcpcd) and then delete the files in /var/lib/dhcpcd (or
>move them to a temporary location if you are more comfortable with that).
>Then restart dhcpcd and see if it pulled a new address from the dhcp
>server by issuing the ifconfig command.
>
>If that doesn't work, I would recommend either using ethereal to capture
>the dhcp negotiation, or manually start dhcpcd with the debug flag set and
>then check the log it produces to try and pinpoint the problem.
>
>hth,
>sktsee
>
>
thankyou, this is exactly what I was looking for... i'll give this a
shot and get back to you

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