Failure to acquire IP over DHCP

Suvayu Ali fatkasuvayu+linux at gmail.com
Thu Aug 30 19:11:01 UTC 2012


On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 11:25:47AM -0500, Dale Dellutri wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 9:36 AM, Suvayu Ali <fatkasuvayu+linux at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have a weird problem; at my office every time I try to connect to my
> > wall outlet, my laptop gets assigned an internal IP (192.168.0.114) and
> > I cannot access the internet.  However everything works as expected when
> > I use any other wall outlets.  To add to this, when other laptops
> > connect to my wall outlet, they  work properly.
> >...
> 
> I assume by "wall outlet" you mean an RJ45 port.
> 
> I assume you're using Fedora.  Which one?  F16, F17?
> 

Sorry, I should have mentioned; this is F17 with all updates applied as
of this morning.

> Could you post the output of two commands:
>   # ip addr show
>   # ip route show
> 
> Do it for each of the two cases:
>   1. When you cannot access the internet (and you get the internal IP
> 192.168.0.114)
>   2. When you can access the internet (you say that everything works
> when you use
> any other wall outlet).
> 

At the moment I can't provide that for both; for case (2), when
everything works on another outlet I get the following:

<http://pastebin.com/fF5eSp7n>

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