udhcpc usage

[Denys Vlasenko]

On Tuesday 14 April 2009 07:31, Guenter wrote:
> Hi,
> I'm somewhat confused....
> I could swear that few weeks ago when I tested first time with udhcpc I
> only did these steps:
> modprobe nicdriver
> ifconfig eth0 up
> udpcpc
> 
> after that I could already ping other hosts, and saw the assigned ip
> with ifconfig. Now when I do so I see with a message that udhcpc does
> fetch the ip from the dhcp server just fine, but when I look with
> ifconfig I dont see it assigned, nor can I ping.
> Anyone an idea what I'm doing wrong now? Maybe udhcpc depends on
> something other which I might have disabled meanwhile?

It does not assign address itself. It only runs a script.
Looks like your udhcpc script is not always working
correctly.
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