Re: [gentoo-dev] gentoo installation problems

[Jerry A! <jerry@thehutt.org>]

On Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 02:02:24AM -0500, Marcus A Martin wrote:
: Jerry,
: 
: I have a cable modem. My cable modem connects toa  router. The router acts as 
: a dhcp server for the local machines. If I bypass the router, I can can run 
: dhcpcd from the command line and everything works great.  If I attempt to run 
: dhcpcd using the router as the dhcp server, it fails. Any ideas on how to 
: work around this?
: 
: I use a netgear RT314 router, if that helps.

What am I now, broadband king?  8)

All I can say is try debugging via dhcpcd with the instructions I
provided earlier.

See if manually configuring the interface work.  If so, read the docs
and figure out what's going on with the DHCP setup on the router or call
tech support.

Sorry I can't be more help.

        --Jerry

name:  Jerry Alexandratos         ||  Open-Source software isn't a
phone: 703.599.6023               ||  matter of life or death...
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                                  ||  than that!