On Wed, Oct 08, 2008 at 10:20:17PM +0100, Laura Speck wrote: > Hey all, > > I am having a problem with a brand new install of Fedora 9. This > machine has two nic's, eth0 and eth1. They are both . We currently > have eth0 plugged into a router, had eth1 plugged in earlier to try it > as well but we have this problem on both nics. > > Basically, on install we specified that both nics were to be dhcp, and > to come up on boot. But neither of them get an ip on boot. I know that > it's not a problem with the cable, as we plugged it into a different > machine and it works fine. I don't think it's a problem with the nics > as I can't see both of them being toast on a new machine. > > ifconfig eth0 up does nothing. I've gotten someone local to the server > to try dhclient eth0 and then tail /var/log/messages. We see > DHCPREQUEST, a bunch of DHCPDISCOVER lines and then end with a "No > DHCPOFFERS received" message. ifconfig never shows either interface as > having an "inet ..." line, but they get an "inet6 ..." line. I know > it's not a problem with the dhcp server because it's our isp's, and > our other machines can grab an ip fine. > > I've shut off Networkmanager (service NetworkManager stop) and started > the network (service network start). > > service network start outputs: > Bringing up loopback interface [OK] > Bringing up interface eth0: > Determining IP information for eth0... failed. [FAILED] > Bringing up interface eth0: > Determining IP information for eth1... failed. No link available. > Check cable. [FAILED] > > Our /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 looks like... > > DEVICE=eth0 > BOOTPROTO=dhcp > ONBOOT=yes > > Any tips would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance! > > Laura I have F9 running on a computer with just one nic. Everything worked until about a week ago, when the nic suddenly no longer automatically got a dhcp address. My work around is to run dhclient etho &. DHCP connects then. I still haven't figured out why this happened or what the correct fix is. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
