Sending DHCP requests .... timed out

[Henning Glawe]

On Thu, Dec 08, 2005 at 04:33:09PM +0900, Gavin Tran wrote:
> Sending DHCP requests .... timed out !
> IP-Config : Reopening network devices....
> 
> The DHCP server got my client IP address at first, for example 192.168.11.7
> 
> But then client couldn't reach the server. It sounds a little bit strange.
> 
> I have read another thread in which had same problem. I heard that
> there was problem with Cisco switch in working with FAI so I've tried
> to change to another hub , switch, but the problem is still there.
> My ethernet card is SysKonnect Marvell (sk98lin). I've recompiled
> kernel with sk98lin server integrated permanently.

is there more than one network interface in your machines? If there is,
either disable the unused one in the bios during the installation or give the
name of the used interface in front of the last colon in the ip= kernel
command line parameter.
background:
if you have more than one network interface and use kernel-level ip
autoconfiguration without restricting it to one interface, it issues dhcp
requests on all interfaces which of cause time out on the unconnected ones...

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c u
henning