dhclient not binding ip address to eth0

Steve Clark sclark at netwolves.com
Sun Feb 5 20:06:53 UTC 2012


On 02/05/2012 01:56 PM, Cheng-Yang Tan wrote:
> One more thing, my dhclient-script is empty. Should it actually have something?
>
Pretty sure the dhclient-script does all the work of configuring your interface, setting default route, dns servers etc.

> Contents of dhclient-script:
> **********************
> #!/bin/sh
> # empty dhclient-script to keep dhclient from complaining
> #
> ********************************
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> *From:* Cheng-Yang Tan <cytan299 at yahoo.com>
> *To:* Users of ISC DHCP <dhcp-users at lists.isc.org>
> *Sent:* Sunday, February 5, 2012 12:51 PM
> *Subject:* Re: dhclient not binding ip address to eth0
>
> Hi Jose,
>   The system is a Samsung ARM s3c2410 with enc28j60 as the ethernet controller. I did not set the ARM system clock because I did not think it mattered. However, I've rectified the situation and the problem remains:
>
> **********************
> lease {
>   interface "eth0";
>   fixed-address 192.168.1.6;
>   option subnet-mask 255.255.255.0;
>   option routers 192.168.1.1;
>   option dhcp-lease-time 86400;
>   option dhcp-message-type 5;
>   option domain-name-servers 192.168.1.1;
>   option dhcp-server-identifier 192.168.1.1;
>   renew 1 2012/02/06 03:07:26;
>   rebind 1 2012/02/06 14:49:21;
>   expire 1 2012/02/06 17:49:21;
> }
> # date
> Sun Feb  5 12:49:58 CST 2012
> **************************
> and it still still doesn't bind
> *******************************
>  #ifconfig -a
> eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 56:C7:86:20:37:A6
>           UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
>           RX packets:23367 errors:0 dropped:15 overruns:0 frame:0
>           TX packets:11 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
>           collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
>           RX bytes:1797535 (1.7 MiB)  TX bytes:3762 (3.6 KiB)
>           Interrupt:54
> **********************************************************
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> *From:* José Queiroz <zekkerj at gmail.com>
> *To:* Users of ISC DHCP <dhcp-users at lists.isc.org>
> *Sent:* Sunday, February 5, 2012 10:20 AM
> *Subject:* Re: dhclient not binding ip address to eth0
>
> 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 <mailto: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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