Re: configuring the network under knoppix

Hi Joris,

On Sat, Apr 17, 2004 at 21:15:51 +0200, Joris Huizer wrote:

> I tried this but it didn't really help. I got some output from the 
> tcpdump but it ended with "network is down"

Did you also try "pump -i eth0" before tcpdump?

> I forgot to tell you my adsl connection is over dhcp. relevant data from 
> the boot log on this other computer:
> 
> Sat Apr 17 21:00:29 2004: For info, please visit 
> http://www.isc.org/dhcp-contrib.html
> Sat Apr 17 21:00:29 2004:
> Sat Apr 17 21:00:30 2004: Listening on LPF/eth0/00:80:ad:75:b5:88
> Sat Apr 17 21:00:30 2004: Sending on   LPF/eth0/00:80:ad:75:b5:88
> Sat Apr 17 21:00:30 2004: Sending on   Socket/fallback/fallback-net
> Sat Apr 17 21:00:31 2004: DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 
> 67 interval 4
> Sat Apr 17 21:00:31 2004: receive_packet failed on eth0: Network is down

This looks like a driver problem with your ethernet card or a bad
cable.

> Sat Apr 17 21:00:33 2004: DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 
> 67 interval 5
> Sat Apr 17 21:00:38 2004: DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 
> 67 interval 13
> Sat Apr 17 21:00:51 2004: DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 
> 67 interval 10
> Sat Apr 17 21:00:51 2004: DHCPOFFER from 10.0.0.138
> Sat Apr 17 21:00:53 2004: DHCPREQUEST on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67
> Sat Apr 17 21:00:54 2004: DHCPACK from 10.0.0.138
> Sat Apr 17 21:00:54 2004: bound to 10.0.0.151 -- renewal in 3600 seconds.
> Sat Apr 17 21:00:54 2004: done.

These log entries are not written by pump, it looks rather like the
dhcpcd (a different dhcp client). Which Knoppix version do you have?

> Can you tell how I could try to get dhcp to work? I found there is a 
> /sbin/dhcpd3 but I didn't see how to make it work as the configuration 
> file was read-only (even for root) and the program didn't do configuring 
> by itself

dhcpd is the dhcp server, not the client. Knoppix should start pump
(the dhcp client) at boot time automatically. Again, are you using an
official Knoppix version?

bye,
  Chris
-- 
Christian Perle                                    chris AT linuxinfotag.de
Grunaer Str. 31                                    http://silmor.de/~chris/
01069 Dresden                   LinuxGuitarKitesBicyclesBeerPizzaRaytracing