Re: [gentoo-user] timeouts with dhcpcd 5.1

[covici@ccs.covici.com]

Stroller <stroller@stellar.eclipse.co.uk> wrote:

> 
> On 11 Sep 2009, at 16:29, covici@ccs.covici.com wrote:
> > ...
> > I am using unstable generally, so it just came in the update.  I
> > have no
> > router, this is FIOS from Verizon.
> 
> Sorry if this is a dumb question, but presumably the interface is an
> ethernet card, right? What's it connected to?
> 
> FISO sounds all very new & "experimental" and with the potential for
> not every glitch to be discovered yet. Can you beg borrow or steal a
> router from somewhere, connect your computer to that, instead, and see
> if dhcpcd 5.1 receives a lease from it? (Or alternatively, set up
> dhcpd on another machine, connect them together with a cable and see
> if that machine responds to the requests of dhcpcd 5.1)
> 

Not sure I can get another router or another dhcp server, and it is an ethernet card.  One interesting
thing is that 4.0.13 gives the ethernet address whereas 5.1.0 does not.
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