[plug] Debian Sarge & network problems

[Meryon Montgomery]

Tim Bowden wrote:

>Hi all,
>
>Given the recent complaints about the s/n ratio, I have decide break my
>long silence on this list and to try and improve the situation with a
>bit more signal ;-)
>
>Over the weekend I blew away my XP and existing sarge installations and
>decided to make a fresh start trying the new sarge installer (beta 4). 
>It gave me a few battles but it's much better than the old installer. 
>It still has a long way to go but it is getting there.
>
>It didn't pick up the XP that I put back on, but I discovered that's a
>know issue.  I'm almost tempted to leave it that way.
>
>Given a few problems with the Gnome installation I also discovered I may
>not dislike KDE as much as I used to.  As a long time gnome user this
>has left me in a state of disconcertion.
>
>My main problem however is getting the network to work.  For some reason
>eth0 seems to be getting an ipv6 address (as is lo) but no ipv4
>address.  It is set to use dhcpd but it can't get a connection.  using
>ifup and ifdown with eth0 doesn't make any difference.  Where might the
>ipv6 address be coming from? 
>
>/etc/network/interfaces looks fine:
>auto lo
>iface lo inet loopback
>
>auto eth0
>iface eth0 inet dhcp
>
>When I run /etc/init.d/networking restart I get:
>
>Setting up IP spoofing protection: rp_filter.
>Reconfiguring network interfaces...Internet Software Consortium DHCP
>Client 2.0pl5
>Coyright (and a heap of dates etc...)
>
>sit0: unknown hardware address type 776
>sit0: unknown hardware address type 776
>Listening on LPF/eth0/(mac address)
>Sending on LPF/eth0/(mac address)
>DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 on port 67 interval 5
>DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 on port 67 interval 13
>DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 on port 67 interval 12
>DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 on port 67 interval 20
>DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 on port 67 interval 10
>No DHCPOFFERS received.
>No working lease in persistent database
>
>Exiting.
>
>Failed to bring up eth0.
>Done.
>
>If I set the interface to be statically configured, it works fine.  I
>can ping my own network card but that then leaves me with the final part
>of the problem.  Even when I set the default gateway and the route table
>looks good, I can't ping past my own ipadddress.
>
>Any ideas?
>
>Thanks,
>Tim Bowden 
>
>
>  
>
What kernel are you running? I found a similar problem running 2.6.3 
with either dhcp or a static address, but after an update to 2.6.5 it 
fixed itself,  and is running fine.

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