Re: [SLUG] linksys and ip address.

From: William Coulter (wrcoulter30@yahoo.com)
Date: Sat Feb 04 2006 - 16:05:19 EST


I tried "dhclient" and I get "no manual entry for dhclient".

William

--- Kwan Lowe <kwan@digitalhermit.com> wrote:

> In Linux you can try the "dhclient" program (run as root). It will attempt to grab
> an IP address via DHCP.
>
> It's not entirely clear if you're having an DHCP client issue or possibly a DNS
> problem. If you run dhclient on the Linux machine, does "ifconfig -a" show an IP
> address in the DHCP range? Does "cat /etc/resolv.conf" reflect your correct DNS
> server?
>
> Try posting the output of "ifconfig -a" before and after you run dhclient.
>

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