On 10/29/05, Ian C. Blenke <icblenke@nks.net> wrote:
> Sounds like SuSE 9.3 is using dhcpcd.
>
> When dhcpcd gets a lease, it logs something to syslog as a local0
> message. Check your /var/log/messages (or does SuSE use /var/log/syslog)
> and see if there are some useful debugging messages.
>
> The default dhcpc configuration directory is /etc/dhcpc/, but it looks
> like SuSE uses /var/lib/dhcpcd/. SuSe uses /etc/sysconfig/dhcpcd for
> init script settings. The script that is run when a lease is obtained is
> /etc/sysconfig/network/scripts/dhcpcd-hook, which contains some
> documentation.
>
I have looked at the message log and see some stuff in there AFTER I
manually do the rout add, but prior to that I do not really see anything.
> If you're not using the -G flag when starting dhcpcd, it looks like it
> should use the "route" field as supplied by your DHCP server. Note: your
> DHCP server needs to add that field to responses it sends to clients.
> Make sure your DHCP server is configured to supply a default gateway,
> and take a look at the system logs there to troubleshoot some more.
>
It does because all of the other machines on the network are picking
it up just fine. Indeed if I go to the wired network, it will probably work
on this one.
> As a last result, run "tcpdump -i eth0 -n -s 1500 -v -e port 67 or port
> 68" and see if there is a router supplied in the lease.
>
The gw address is shown in dhcpcd-test but it just does not get put in
the routing table...
> With a bit of syslog and tcpdump output, we should be able to help you
> debug this problem.
>
I will get clean ones and put on here.
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