Re: dhcp when booting does not get default route ??

From: graham (graham.marsden1_at_ntlworld.com)
Date: 09/08/04


Date: Wed, 08 Sep 2004 07:27:57 GMT

On Tue, 07 Sep 2004 13:30:59 +0000, Guðlaugur Jóhannesson wrote:

> Lasse Kim Christiansen wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I've got the weirdest problem on my suse 9.1 professional (had the same
>> problem on 9.0).
>>
>> When booting my laptop i do get an DHCP assigned ip address. But for some
>> reason the default route does not get installed.
>>
>> When i then remove the /var/run/dhcp..... file and redo a dhcpcd eth0 then
>> everything works fine ???
>>
>> This only happens on my Suse box. Not on anything else ??
>>
>> Have anyone seen anything similar ?
>
> I had a similar problem with my wireless card configured with ndiswrapper.
> It would get the IP but no gateway or dns servers. What I did was to add
> the lines
> DHCLIENT_MODIFY_RESOLV_CONF='yes'
> DHCLIENT_SET_DEFAULT_ROUTE='yes'
> to the config file of the network card which is in /etc/sysconfig/network/
> and has a name starting with ifcfg- and ends in the name of the interface.
>
> HTH
These should be already set to yes in /etc/sysconfig/network/dhcp.
It seems strange if these need setting twice.

I have a similar problem in that the network connection is unreliable at
boot time.
I just issue '/sbin/rcnetwork restart' as root after the box boot to
overcome this.



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