dhcp revisited...

[JD]

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Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2007 10:39 AM
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Subject: dhcp revisited...

At work, I can use feisty dhcp networking 'as-is' (using avahi), but at home
(on Comcast) it doesn't seem to work.  In a previous thread regarding this,
the conclusion was to drop the avahi daemon, and just use dhclient3 to set
the ether device.

Here is what I tried - 
killall avahi-daemon
killall avahi-autoipd
ifconfig eth0 down
vi /var/lib/dhcp/dhclient.eth0.leases
<set the information here to match what the win box has in its ipconfig
info>
ifconfig eth0 up
dhclient3 eth0
(no leases)
Stop everything again...
dhclient -lf /var/lib/dhcp/dhclient.eth0.leases -s <dhcp server ip> eth0
(no leases)

-- while the avahi-daemon doesn't restart, the avahi-autoipd still insists
on coming up, even though the daemon isn't active...

I didn't want to physically remove avahi since it works fine at the office
(unless I really have to).

I also tried going through knetworkmanager to set this, but that util seems
to be useless... it doesn't keep gateway or dns information, and, since I
can't seem to save profile info, I've given up on that for now...

Any input (as always) is appreciated.  I'm trying to get this working so
that I can have access to my job...


Is it possible for me to bring up Kubuntu at home, stop the avahi daemon,
and run dhclient to get networking operational, and let the system boot
'normally' at work using avahi (since this works at that location?)

Or is it really better just to remove avahi altogether ?


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