[CLUE-Tech] Easiest DHCP

Thu Jan 24 12:08:13 MST 2002

Hmm, well like I said I'm not an expert on linux yet.  
Maybe some of the more advanced users can help you out. 
Did you try to run dhcpcd?  If so, what happened?  If 
you got that error during startup, maybe its not 
installed or it doesn't know where to look.  If I were 
you, I would just go to 
http://www.isc.org/products/DHCP/ and download the 
client.  It also has a HowTo.   Once you get it 
installed you would just need to run dhcpcd and that 
should be it.  

You might also try to run the command 'updatedb' then 
run 'locate dhcpcd' and see if the dhcp client is on 
your computer.  If it is, just try to run it.  If it is 
not, download it. 

Did you check out the config file for your nic in 
sysconfig/network-scripts?  On my machine eth0 is set up 
dynamic and looks like this:

DEVICE=eth0
BOOTPROTO=dhcp
ONBOOT=yes

eth1 is set up statically and looks like this:

DEVICE=eth1
IPADDR=192.168.0.1
NETMASK=255.255.0.0
NETWORK=192.168.0.0
BROADCAST=192.168.255.255

Once again, these files are in /etc/sysconfig/network-
scripts.  Maybe try to change your eth0 to look like 
mine. 

If you get the error on startup I would think that maybe 
it is set dynamically since its looking for the dhcp 
client.  

Remember all this info is from my experience with RH.  
Its the only distro I have used and what I said might 
not work for you.  Just give us all the error messages 
and versions of the software your using. 

I have a book that helped me a lot in learning linux.  
You can view it at 
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0072131365/qid=101
1897737/sr=1-7/ref=sr_1_79_7/104-9968333-2051959

I went from hardly knowing anything to running a lot of 
the major services on my little linux box at home.  I 
have sendmail, pop3, ftp, apache, dns, dhcp server, 
router/firewall, etc.  The book shows you where to go to 
d/l these services and how to install and configure 
them.  Its kinda cool when you have your own domain and 
host all the services such as dns, apache, sendmail... 
for it. 

I work at AT&T Broadband and have the service at home.  
It will work for you.  I don't know if you would like to 
do it, but you could give me your mac address of your 
nic going to the cable modem and or your phone # and I 
could pull up your account and see if we can see the nic 
or not.  

> I have Mandrake 7.2 but I'm thinking of upgrading to 8.1 or actually changing it
> all together to Red Hat 7.1 like Chris...Red Hat is one distro I've yet to
> try....imagine that.  As far as setup...I've had on static IP address through a
> LAN before but I think I need to have it on a cable setting which is what I have
> it on now with the DHCP setup.  I know for sure that the ethernet card works
> because it's the same one I was using with the static IP address setup months 
> ago
> and it was still through AT&T's @home service.  It worked with SuSE but when I
> tried installing SuSE to get the internet going it still didn't work.
> 
> I was looking closely during boot up and it said "Bringing up eth0 interface:
> can't find dhcp client  [Failed]"   That and something else with my soundcard 
> and
> printer...but that's not as important.
> 
> This group is speedy...I type in an email and I get responses in 15 minutes
> tops....This is awesome!
> 
> Steve
> 
> 
> Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier wrote:
> 
> > I've gotten Mandrake's Firewall distro to use DHCP just
> > fine. I doubt that it's a great deal different for their
> > desktop distro. Slackware also works, but it might be a
> > little much for a beginner.
> >
> > You need to tell us what kind of errors you're actually
> > getting as well as which version of Mandrake you're using.
> > What kind of setup do you have? A single computer that's
> > connected directly to the Cable Modem, or do you have
> > several computers connected to a LAN? Do you know for sure
> > that the Ethernet card connected to the modem works with
> > Linux and that the modules are being loaded?
> >
> > I believe there are a few people who are using Mandrake,
> > so I'm sure someone on the list should be able to tell you
> > what's wrong.
> >
> > Zonker
> > > I'm not too new to linux...I've been messing around with it for awhile but
> > > I still don't really know very much about it.  I've installed a lot of
> > > different distributions but I've been stuck with Mandrake for awhile now
> > > but the internet doesn't work.  I have that AT&T Cable Modem...it used to
> > > be the @home service but I think they may have changed it now.  Before, the
> > > static IP address used to work when put it in manually with the other
> > > distributions, but it doesn't work now with any of them (distributions).
> > > So, my question is, which distribution has the easiest DHCP configuration
> > > if they're not all the same?...I've never configured it before but now I
> > > guess I have to if I want to use the internet without crashing (I'm stuck
> > > on my windows partition for surfing, email, and the sort). Or probably a
> > > better question is which DHCP configuration distibution has actual DHCP
> > > that work...I've tried it with my Mandrake but keeps doing some kind of
> > > error as if it can't find an IP address at all.  Any help in plain english
> > > is wonderful.  Thanks a lot.  (I've already called AT&T, but they don't
> > > have support for Linux....bummer!)
> > >
> > > Steve
> > >
> > >
> > >
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