DHCP doesn't work under Fedora Core 3 - using Knoppix DHCP has no problems

Timothy Murphy tim at birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie
Fri Mar 18 13:29:06 UTC 2005


pipinia at web.de wrote:


> ============================================================
> 
> [fedora]# ifconfig -a
> eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:30:54:00:76:2C
>           inet6 addr: fe80::230:54ff:fe00:762c/64 Scope:Link
>           UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
>           RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>           TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
>           collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
>           RX bytes:0 (0.0 b)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
>           Interrupt:10 Base address:0x1c00
> 
> lo        Link encap:Local Loopback
>           inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
>           inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
>           UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
>           RX packets:4116 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>           TX packets:4116 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
>           collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
>           RX bytes:4916870 (4.6 MiB)  TX bytes:4916870 (4.6 MiB)
> 
> sit0      Link encap:IPv6-in-IPv4
>           NOARP  MTU:1480  Metric:1
>           RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>           TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
>           collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
>           RX bytes:0 (0.0 b)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
> 
> ------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> [knoppix]# ifconfig -a
> eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:30:54:00:76:2C
>           inet addr:192.168.0.22  Bcast:192.168.0.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
>           UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
>           RX packets:200 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>           TX packets:221 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
>           collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
>           RX bytes:117060 (114.3 KiB)  TX bytes:26813 (26.1 KiB)
>           Interrupt:10 Base address:0x3000
> 
> lo        Link encap:Local Loopback
>           inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
>           UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
>           RX packets:12 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>           TX packets:12 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
>           collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
>           RX bytes:600 (600.0 b)  TX bytes:600 (600.0 b)
> 
> ============================================================

I didn't study your problem carefully,
but you seem to be using IPv6 with Fedora, and IPv4 with knoppix.
Maybe you should have IPV6INIT=no in ifcfg-eth0 ?

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