DHCP problems!

[HuTcH]

hi ppl
After installing gentoo my network worked correctly, but the next day when I turn on the PC, it seems to brake about 10s when it arrived to the Running DHCPCD field and then it assign an ip to my eth0 card and go on normally, but the problem is I dont had net anymore, i have already tried to ping some sites and it doesn't do anything.
The solution I found is to do chroot and then emerge -C dhcpcd and then emerge dhcdcp, after that my network work correctly, but if I turn off the pc for some time in next time it doesn't work already.
please help me because it dont want to those steps every time I turn on PC.


hugs

[Strowi]

hi,

please post the output of "ifconfig" (before reemerging dhcpcd)
and check if your /etc/resolv.conf contains a valid DNS-Server/ your dhcp-server provides a valid DNS-server.
Do you have dhcpcd added to a runlevel? (check with "rc-update -s").
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[HuTcH]

Strowi, my gentoo box is unable to connect to the internet, so I dont have how to put here the output of these commands, but if they are really necessary tell me cause i try to put it here.
However i check already these commands and i didnt found de dhcpcp field in rc-update -s output.
What do you think?

hugs

[Strowi]

hi,

ok, i'll try..

dhcpcd is a dhcp-CLIENT, so you need a dhcp-server somewhere on your local network.

First of all, you should check if your network-card is loaded and works.
"ifconfig" should give you a list of the ethernet-interfaces, there should be 2, 1 for localhost (lo) and one for the physical (eth0). If you don't get eth0, you are missing a driver for the nic -> check kernel.

On that eth0, there should be a line "inet addr:...." which contains the ip, bcast and netmask.
If you get an ip address, dhcp seems to work fine, and you are missing only a valid DNS (which resolves google.de to the IP-Address). maybe try "ping google.de" and "ping 216.239.59.194" (this is also a google-address) and report back.
And again, check if /etc/resolv.conf contains a valid nameserver.

It's a little hard to troubleshoot without the actual logs...
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[Dizzutch]

I believe you just need to setup /etc/conf.d/net and add /etc/init.d/net.eth0 to your bootlevel

[HuTcH]

my ifconfig output:
inet addr:217.70.68.34 Bcast:217.70.69.255 Mask:255.255.255.0

> cat /etc/resolv.conf
search bragatel.pt
nameserver 217.70.64.253

everything seems to be fine, but my netword doesn´t work, strange!

hugs

[HuTcH]

Dizzutch i put the comand > rc-update add net.eth0 boot and the network isn´t still working, but now whem I´m loading the kernel appears this warning:
net.eth0 : cannot start until the runlevel boot has completed.
thks

hugs

[Strowi]

boot is the wrong runlevel for this, net.eth0 belongs into default.

[HuTcH]

Strowi, ok.
Regardless my problem continues unsolved, please help me!

hugs

[Dizzutch]

what does your routing table look like?

[HuTcH]

Dizzutch join here, this is the same post but with more information like logs, you can find there the netstat -r output.

https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-469055.html


thks

[Dizzutch]

why are there two similar threads? admin, please close this one
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[kallamej]

Please don't start multiple threads on the same topic.

Moved from Networking & Security to Duplicate Threads in favour of the above mentioned thread.
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