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On Friday 18 January 2008, Marko Kocić 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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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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alan |
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Alan McKinnon |
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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |
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