dhclient not binding ip address to eth0

[José Queiroz]

Is this a bootp lease? If not, there may be a problem with system clocks,
as  your lease appears as expiring in 1-1-1970.

2012/2/5 Cheng-Yang Tan <cytan299 at yahoo.com>

> Hi
> I'm having a very weird problem with dhclient running on arm-linux. I can
> get an ip address from dhclient:
>
> *********************************************
>
> # 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;
> }
> ***************************************
>
> BUT it is *not* bound to eth0:
>
> ******************************************
> # 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
> *******************************************
>
> 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:
> *****************************************************
> auto lo
> iface lo inet loopback
> #
> auto eth0
> iface eth0 inet dhcp
> *****************************************************
>
> 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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