Re: Network Config

[Rick Stevens <rstevens vitalstream com>]

Joshua Berger wrote:
> I recently installed RedHat 9.0 on one of the computers on my home 
> network.  I'm connecting to the internet through a cable modem with a 
> router.  I set my network card to DHCP, but it failed to get an IP.  My 
> router is the Linksys BEFSR41.  Note that when I set a static IP (the IP 
> of the router), it connected, but the internet didn't work.  Keep in 
> mind that I'm fairly newbie, especially in Linux.  Could anyone help me 
> out?

Did the computer run Windows and connect successfully before?  If so,
the odds are that the DHCP server on the router is still holding a lease
for the machine's NIC (ethernet card) from the last Windows run.  The
best way to clean that up is to power cycle the router.  Once it's back
up, on the Linux box, run:

	/etc/rc.d/init.d/network restart

and you should get a fresh DHCP lease.

You might also check the lease times on the router.  If you plan to
reboot your machines a lot, you may wish to make the DHCP leases
shorter in duration.
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