Don't know what else to do with DHCP...help??

[hoe-waa at hawaii.rr.com]

Aloha
This sounds a whole lot like my DHCP problem. It was being 
discussed on this list earlier last week. I have attached my thread for your perusal.

I have the same ethernet card as you. There is a 
workaround in the attachment that I am using (I also
created a script to do it) but if someone comes up 
with a real fix it would be muck better.

Read through my attachment and see if you think we 
have the same problem.

Robert

----- Original Message -----
From: Don <kindredmnementh at yahoo.com>
Date: Monday, May 31, 2004 1:56 am
Subject: Re: Don't know what else to do with DHCP...help??

> 
> --- Rob <stopspam at users.sourceforge.net> wrote:
> > What is the last entry in /var/db/dhclient.leases ?
> > If there's something, does that make sense ?
> > 
> > Anything dhclient related in /var/log/messages ?
> > 
> > And how about running dhclient manually in the
> > foreground ?
> > As root, kill the running dhclient pid first, and
> > then start:
> > 
> >     # dhclient -d rl0
> > 
> > where you should replace "rl0" by your own network
> > card.
> > Does that tell you something useful?
> > 
> > Rob.
> 
> There was nothing in the /var/db/dhclient.leases and
> the only relevant thing I found in the
> /var/log/messages was this
> 
> May 31 05:02:10  kernel: skc0: <3Com 3C940 Gigabit
> Ethernet> port 0xd800-0xd8ff mem 0xe5800000-0xe5803fff
> irq 18 at device 9.0 on pci0
> May 31 05:02:10  kernel: skc0: 3Com Gigabit LOM
> (3C940)
> May 31 05:02:10  kernel: sk0: <Marvell Semiconductor,
> Inc. Yukon> on skc0
> May 31 05:02:10  kernel: sk0: Ethernet address:
> 00:0e:a6:46:f4:d9
> May 31 05:02:10  kernel: e1000phy0: <Marvell 88E1000
> Gigabit PHY> on miibus0
> May 31 05:02:10  kernel: e1000phy0:  10baseT,
> 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, 1000baseTX-FDX,
> auto
> 
> and
> 
> May 31 05:02:34  dhclient: Can't bind to dhcp address:
> Address already in use
> May 31 05:02:34  dhclient: Please make sure there is
> no other dhcp server
> May 31 05:02:34  dhclient: running and that there's no
> entry for dhcp or
> May 31 05:02:34  dhclient: bootp in /etc/inetd.conf.  
> Also make sure you
> May 31 05:02:34  dhclient: are not running HP JetAdmin
> software, which
> May 31 05:02:34  dhclient: includes a bootp server.
> 
> so it looks like the kernel is definitely identifying
> my NIC correctly (I guessed this seeing how I was able
> to install over FTP) but for whatever reason the
> dchlient is no longer working
> 
> I killed the dhclient pid and reran it...both as just
> "dhclient" and "dhclinet -d sk0" both times the
> computer would just sit there with nothing
> happening...no messages no nothing (I let them sit
> there for 10-15 minutes before I killed it)
> 
> Don
> 
> 
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