<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div><div><font face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif">Hi</font></div><div><font face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif">I'm having a very weird problem with dhclient running on arm-linux. I can get an ip address from dhclient:</font></div><div><font face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif">*********************************************</font></div><div><font face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif"># cat dhclient.leases </font></div><div><font face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif">lease {</font></div><div><font face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif">interface "eth0";</font></div><div><font face="'times
new roman', 'new york', times, serif">fixed-address 192.168.1.6;</font></div><div><font face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif">option subnet-mask 255.255.255.0;</font></div><div><font face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif">option dhcp-lease-time 86400;</font></div><div><font face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif">option routers 192.168.1.1;</font></div><div><font face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif">option dhcp-message-type 5;</font></div><div><font face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif">option dhcp-server-identifier 192.168.1.1;</font></div><div><font face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif">option domain-name-servers 192.168.1.1;</font></div><div><font face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif">renew 4 1970/01/01 10:05:28;</font></div><div><font face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif">rebind 4 1970/01/01 21:01:42;</font></div><div><font face="'times new roman',
'new york', times, serif">expire 5 1970/01/02 00:01:42;</font></div><div><font face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif">}</font></div><div><font face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif">***************************************</font></div><div><font face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif">BUT it is *not* bound to eth0:</font></div><div><font face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif">******************************************</font></div><div><font face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif"># ifconfig eth0</font></div><div><font face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif">eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 56:C7:86:20:37:A6 </font></div><div><font face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif">UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500
Metric:1</font></div><div><font face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif">RX packets:277 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0</font></div><div><font face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif">TX packets:3 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0</font></div><div><font face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif">collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 </font></div><div><font face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif">RX bytes:23176 (22.6 KiB) TX bytes:1026 (1.0 KiB) </font></div><div><font face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif">Interrupt:54 </font></div><div><font face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif">*******************************************</font></div><div><font face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif">I can manually bind the address using:</font></div><div><font face="'times new roman', 'new york',
times, serif">ifconfig eth0 192.168.1.6</font></div><div><font face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif">and eth0 talks to the world. </font></div><div><font face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif">I believe I've set up /etc/network/interface correctly:</font></div><div><font face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif">*****************************************************</font></div><div><font face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif">auto lo </font></div><div><font face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif">iface lo inet loopback </font></div><div><font face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif"># </font></div><div><font face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif">auto eth0 </font></div><div><font face="'times new
roman', 'new york', times, serif">iface eth0 inet dhcp </font></div><div><font face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif">*****************************************************</font></div><div><font face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif">How can I make dhclient bind the ip address to eth0.</font></div><div><font face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif">Thanks for any info!</font></div><div><font face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif">cytan</font></div><div><font face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif">P.S. linux version is: 2.6.39.4</font></div><div><font face="'times new roman', 'new
york', times, serif">and dclient comes from dhcp-4.1-ESV-R3.tar.gz<br></font></div></div></div></body></html>