[TriLUG] DHCP renewal problems

[Christopher L Merrill]

Matt Pusateri wrote:
> I think this is probably script/hardware related.  Your script doesn't 
> set the MAC does it?  Does it load or unload modules?  Do you need to do 
> a whole network restart or just down the interface and bring it back 

No, I don't think it sets the MAC...I can't imagine why we would do that.
I don't think it un/loads modules, either. It basically asks the user some
questions, configures some network files (hosts, resolve.conf, etc),
configures a preferences file and then launches our software.

I'm not sure we _have_ to restart the whole network. I think we restart
the entire network service because there could be multiple NICs and
we need to support that condition.

> up.  I assume your using the internal onboard NIC's in the SC1435's ?  
> Can you put a network card that is known to work(in another machine) in 
> the SC1435's and test that?

Yes, I'm using the onboard NIC (BTW, it's a 1420).  I'm not sure I have
another network card handy to try.  However, we have a bunch of these
1420s, so I went to a Windows box and did a ipconfig release / renew
and it worked fine.


I also tried another experiment - I tried restarting the network service
manually, without any reconfiguration or prompting from our scripts.
It still failed.  I think I'll try the Fedora 7 Live DVD (which our
distro is based on) and see if it has the same problem.

Chris


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