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Edward Glowacki glowack2@msu.edu
Wed, 20 Sep 2000 09:55:50 -0400 (EDT)


On 20 Sep 2000, Ben Pfaff wrote:
> First: You need to fix your mail client configuration.  "." is
> not a useful subject, and not quoting any context is not helpful.
> 
> "Kyle Marcus Anderson" <ander640@pilot.msu.edu> writes:
> 
> > 1) yes, i have a lancity cable modem running into my ethernet card.  I live in
> > Mayo.  They have cable modems here.
> > 
> > 2)driver loaded...
> 
> What messages does the driver give when it loads? 
> 
> > 3) Kernel 2.2
> .
> > 4) bringing eht0  ,.......    failed
> >  its unable to find ip address. etc.
> 
> Okay, I'd figured *that* much out.  But what *messages* does it
> give?  And what do "ifconfig eth0" and "route -n" print?

Apparently your machine is up on the network right now.  

>ping ander640.user.msu.edu
PING ander640.user.msu.edu (35.10.18.171): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 35.10.18.171: icmp_seq=0 ttl=28 time=9.514 ms
64 bytes from 35.10.18.171: icmp_seq=1 ttl=28 time=3.055 ms
64 bytes from 35.10.18.171: icmp_seq=2 ttl=28 time=4.374 ms
64 bytes from 35.10.18.171: icmp_seq=3 ttl=28 time=8.924 ms
64 bytes from 35.10.18.171: icmp_seq=4 ttl=28 time=3.166 ms
64 bytes from 35.10.18.171: icmp_seq=5 ttl=28 time=4.452 ms
64 bytes from 35.10.18.171: icmp_seq=6 ttl=28 time=7.756 ms
^C
--- ander640.user.msu.edu ping statistics ---
7 packets transmitted, 7 packets received, 0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 3.055/5.892/9.514/2.554 ms
>

Did you figure it out or reboot into Windows or something?  If you can get
me a more accurate time as to when exactly you tried to get an DHCP address,
I can try and track it down on the server end to see if we received the
request.  Also, as Ben suggested, "ifconfig eth0" and "route -n" might
help.


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Edward Glowacki			glowack2@msu.edu
Network Services		
Michigan State University