can't get ip through dhcp after upgrade

[Kevin Old]

On Wed, 10 Nov 2004 14:27:33 +0100, Alexander Apprich
<a.apprich at science-computing.de> wrote:
> Kevin Old wrote:
> > On Wed, 10 Nov 2004 13:58:07 +0100, Alexander Apprich
> > <a.apprich at science-computing.de> wrote:
> [schnip]
> 
> 
> >>>Can you elaborate on "using dhclient"?  I'm having the same problem as
> >>>Ketil with trying to connect to a network.
> >>
> >>Just execute dhclient, and if eth0 is up and a dhcp server is availible
> >>eth0 get its network config assigned. Older RedHats < 8 used to have
> >>pump which did allmost the same.
> >>
> >>If dhclient doesn't work it's probably because a firewall is blocking
> >>DHCP.
> >
> >
> > Ok, it must be the firewall, but I have it disabled.  I've verified
> > this by the "/sbin/service iptables status" which reports "Firewall is
> > stopped".
> >
> > Under "Security" (in the Gnome menu, not sure where) it shows that the
> > firewall is disabled and SELinux is disabled.
> >
> > Any ideas if there's something else somehow blocking the network?
> >
> 
> Where is the dhcp server located at, same subnet? Do you have another
> box which gets ist netconfig from the dhcp server? maybe it's an
> issue from something between your box and the dhcp server?

Yes, same subnet.  Actually I've tried this on 2 networks with
hundreds of machines on them and still have no luck.

Thanks for your help,
Kevin
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Kevin Old
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