Re: [PLUG] frustrating nic issues

[Michael Leone <turgon@mike-leone.com>]

On Sun, 2002-05-12 at 16:37, pinkee@cavegirl.org wrote:
> I purchased a onte; pro100 nic, that is supported by my debian system, I
> have the correct modules up, but when it comes time to pull a ip from
> the dhcp server it just doesn't. 

Does any other machine? (just wondering if your FHCP might not be
working correctly)

> It is a nic with a dongle, and I get
> green lights when I execite pump and I even occasionally get an ip, but
> when i check ifconfig I am only tx, no rx at all. 
> 
> Any advice would be much appreciated. I am at a loss now.

You should have a bunch of DHCP messages in /var/log/syslog on your DHCP
server:

May 12 06:29:25 workhorse dhcpd-2.2.x: DHCPDISCOVER from 00:c0:15:00:a3:e1 via eth0
May 12 06:29:25 workhorse dhcpd-2.2.x: DHCPOFFER on 192.168.100.50 to 00:c0:15:00:a3:e1 via eth0
May 12 06:29:25 workhorse dhcpd-2.2.x: DHCPDISCOVER from 00:c0:15:00:a3:e1 via eth0
May 12 06:29:25 workhorse dhcpd-2.2.x: DHCPOFFER on 192.168.100.50 to 00:c0:15:00:a3:e1 via eth0
May 12 06:29:25 workhorse dhcpd-2.2.x: DHCPREQUEST for 192.168.100.50 from 00:c0:15:00:a3:e1 via eth0
May 12 06:29:25 workhorse dhcpd-2.2.x: DHCPACK on 192.168.100.50 to 00:c0:15:00:a3:e1 via eth0

Or similar. Anything interesting there?

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