dhclient not binding ip address to eth0

[Cheng-Yang Tan]

Hi
I'm having a very weird problem with dhclient running on arm-linux. I can get an ip address from dhclient:

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# cat dhclient.leases 
lease {
interface "eth0";
fixed-address 192.168.1.6;
option subnet-mask 255.255.255.0;
option dhcp-lease-time 86400;
option routers 192.168.1.1;
option dhcp-message-type 5;
option dhcp-server-identifier 192.168.1.1;
option domain-name-servers 192.168.1.1;
renew 4 1970/01/01 10:05:28;
rebind 4 1970/01/01 21:01:42;
expire 5 1970/01/02 00:01:42;
}
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BUT it is *not* bound to eth0:

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# ifconfig eth0
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 56:C7:86:20:37:A6 
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:277 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:3 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
RX bytes:23176 (22.6 KiB) TX bytes:1026 (1.0 KiB) 
Interrupt:54 
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I can manually bind the address using:
ifconfig eth0 192.168.1.6

and eth0 talks to the world. 

I believe I've set up /etc/network/interface correctly:
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auto lo 
iface lo inet loopback 
# 
auto eth0 
iface eth0 inet dhcp 
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How can I make dhclient bind the ip address to eth0.

Thanks for any info!

cytan

P.S. linux version is: 2.6.39.4
and dclient comes from dhcp-4.1-ESV-R3.tar.gz
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