[TriLUG] DHCP renewal problems

[Matt Pusateri]

Christopher L Merrill wrote:
> I've tried the Fedora 7 live CD in 2 SC1420s and a 600SC - doing a
> network restart failed on all three with this message:
>    Determining IP information for eth0... /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts
>    /ifup-eth: line 273: 3903 Terminated /sbin/dhclient ${DHCLIENTARGS}
>    ${DEVICE} failed
>
> Note that in all 3 cases, getting an address via DHCP worked fine
> when Fedora booted.
>
> So far, googling the above has not yielded anything helpful  :(
>
> Chris
>
>   

What happens when you just ifdown ifup the interface.  Also the LiveCD 
maybe running NetworkManager which will do some funky stuff in and of 
itself to get networking working.

Matt P.