[PLUG] Gutsy upgrade on HP tx1000 internet issue

[Tony Rick]

On Nov 18, 2007 9:49 PM, kurt braget <joehaircut at gmail.com> wrote:

> Yeah, I wish I knew how to do that. If anybody does, please let me know.
> Thanks!
>
> On Nov 18, 2007 4:42 PM, Nick Aubert <nickaubert at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > You OpenSUSE laptop has a 192.168.x.x IP address, which is in the
> > range that most commodity home firewalls or routers should give out.
> > Since your Ubuntu machine doesn't have an IP address in the same
> > range, it's not getting one from the same place as your OpenSUSE
> > laptop (presumably it's getting it from whatever firewall or router
> > you plug your machines into to connect to the internet).
> >
> > Can you confirm that your ethernet connection is set to DHCP?
> > Unfortunately, I don't know how to do that on Ubuntu.
> >
> > -Nick
>

There is a trace of the DHCP conversation and address assignment in
/var/log/syslog (Ubuntu).  On my laptop it looks like this:

Nov 19 08:55:26 myhost dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on ra0 to 255.255.255.255 port
> 67 interval 5
> Nov 19 08:55:31 myhost dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on ra0 to 255.255.255.255port 67 interval 5
> Nov 19 08:55:32 myhost dhclient: DHCPOFFER from 192.168.1.1
> Nov 19 08:55:32 myhost dhclient: DHCPREQUEST on ra0 to 255.255.255.255port 67
> Nov 19 08:55:32 myhost dhclient: DHCPACK from 192.168.1.1
> Nov 19 08:55:32 myhost avahi-daemon[4721]: Joining mDNS multicast group on
> interface ra0.IPv4 with address 192.168.1.11.
> Nov 19 08:55:32 myhost avahi-daemon[4721]: New relevant interface ra0.IPv4for mDNS.
> Nov 19 08:55:32 myhost avahi-daemon[4721]: Registering new address record
> for 192.168.1.11 on ra0.IPv4.
> Nov 19 08:55:32 myhost dhclient: bound to 192.168.1.11 -- renewal in
> 285293 seconds.
>

- tony