Re: [TCLUG:11288] 2.0.xx kernels and DHCP

[Dave Erickson <gsa700@mediaone.net>]

Mike Hicks wrote:
> 
> > I use a Mediaone cable modem to serve my home network. I have been
> > running Debian for about a year but suddenly Debian no longer works.
> > It loads up my eth0 and eth1, it starts up DHCP and gets an IP
> > address, but then any time I try to access the net it says that
> > the network is unreachable.
> 
(Clip clever anecdote ;-)
>
> Hmm.  I guess that didn't have much of a point -- mostly just an amusing
> anecdote.  (One of my better anecdotes, sadly..)
> 
> Anyway, I suppose the point is "Try the newest DHCP client you can"
> Your network may have a new DHCP server that doesn't properly
> communicate with the client you have on that system.
> 

My point exactly. I tried two different machines several times with the
same results. Whatever the problem is, it's not because of anything I
did.

-- 
Dave Erickson
"It is hard to fail, but it is worse
 never to have tried to succeed."
                  --Theodore Roosevelt