toasty dhclient

[fedora1234]

Yum did its thing over the weekend, wonderful. It worked great before the reboot, now networking is dead.

the setup is simple: linux box 3com nic -> permently on dls modem.

I tried booting back into the old kernel, still no go.

ifup says it can't find a dhcp server and ping times out, along with packet errors. dhclient says it times out because nobody is home (no dhcp server). I've gone to the extream of entering the exact ip addrs of the dhcp server, still nothing. i'd tried to override dhclients default port of 67 with a -p 68 to change the port, but it doesn't like my syntax.

thanks

[dejaniv]

I have similar problem. Try this:
1. >Enter (logon as root): netstat -rn
2. >if there is no 0.0.0.0 or 'default' under Destination column type this:
3. >route add default eth0

My interface eth0 is configured through dhcp and it used to receive all the data including default routing and the network name but now it does not... I wonder if this is my provider's fault or fedora's? I didn't mess up with network devices when this happen.

So now if I don't add default routing manualy I cannot access network (not even DNS because it is on different subnetwork).

Anyone knows exactly why this happens?

Thanx!

[firf]

I have similar problem. Try this:
1. >Enter (logon as root): netstat -rn
2. >if there is no 0.0.0.0 or 'default' under Destination column type this:
3. >route add default eth0


there was no default or 0.0.0.0 so I typed 3. Now in the output of netstat -rn i have 2 extra lines. Namely:
dest gateway genmask flags iface
0.0.0.0 192.168.1.1 0.0.0.0 UG eth0
169.254.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.0.0 U eth0

the first one is ok? (the gateway is correct at least) But what is the second one?