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On Jan 18, 2008 6:50 PM, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> On Friday 18 January 2008, Marko Koci� wrote: |
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> > I'm running gentoo on my dual boot windows laptop. |
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> > I use dhcp to connect to the the internet through cable modem. |
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> > Sometimes (in the evenings) it just fails to automatically obtain IP |
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> > address from dhcp server (timeouts). |
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> > I tried different settings in /etc/conf.d/net file (timeout and |
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> > different dhcpc options) and switching between dhclient and dhcpd, |
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> > but with no luck. |
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> > When I reboot to windows it just works. I contacted my ISP, but they |
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> > said they don't give support for Linux. |
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> > Is there a way to configure dhcp/dhclient to behave exactly like DHCP |
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> > in Windows XP? |
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> Where is the dhcp server? On the cable provider's network, or on the |
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> modem itself? |
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On cable providers network. |
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> I have found that dhcp can do weird stuff sometimes and Windows client |
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> don't always follow the standard method. Then again, what else is new? |
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> My first diagnostic step would be to get another machine on the network |
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> and sniff dhcp traffic when using Windows and Gentoo to see what the |
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> difference is. |
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I can't do that, cause I don't have switch/hub, just a cable modem directly |
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conencted to laptop. |
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I was looking for some magic "enable windows emulation mode" for dhcp. |
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> alan |
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Thanks, |
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Marko |
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