eth0 > dhcpcd fails at startup

Duncan Gibson duncan.gibson at xs4all.nl
Sat Nov 13 09:25:44 CET 2010


> I am on a x86_64 computer with lunar installed. I use lnet to configure
> my eth0 or wlan0. Wlan comes up nice, but eth0 always needs a dhcpcd -h
> hostname after a reboot.
> Any advice on the configuration? It looks like this:
> /etc/config.d/network/eth0
>
> #
> # configuration for "eth0"
> # automatically generated by lnet - do not edit, run 'lnet' instead
> # -- Sat Nov 13 07:22:22 CET 2010
> #
> AUTO=""
> MODULE="forcedeth"
> MODULE_OPTIONS=""
>
> MANAGER="ifplugd"
> ...
> ADDRESS="dhcp"
> NETMASK=""
> BROADCAST=""
> IFCONF_OPTS=""
>
> DHCP_CLIENT=""
> DHCP_OPTIONS="-h blue"


These could already be the defaults, but what about trying:
AUTO="Y"
DHCP_CLIENT="dhcpcd"

On one of my machines I have to use "dhcpcd -K -h machineName"
[that's K not k] otherwise the connection keeps dropping. YMMV.

D.



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