9fans - fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] ip/ipconfig returns 'recved dhcpnak on /net'
Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2007 09:21:33 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <0cb316f085d2c4942ac20e0c92fdb9ce@quanstro.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20071219120027.GA21455@localhost.locahost.net>

> problem is a described in the subject. Also using a more explicit call:
> 
> 'ip/ipconfig -g 192.168.0.1 /net/ether0 192.168.0.4 255.255.255.0'
> 
> produces  the same result. 192.168.0.4 is the address the router usually asigns to the box with Plan 9 on 
> The gateway is a Netgear hard firewall and router, which is bridged into by a adsl modem.
> a search for the mac address  with 'cat /net/ether0/addr' just produces 0000000000000
> Could this be why the dhcp server is refusing to give out an address? How to correct this?
> I am running the Live CD (most recent version).

you can^wshould be able to verify that this is indeed
the problem by setting

ether0=type=xyx ea=003003040506

in your plan9.ini.  what type of card do you have?  i wonder if
it is resetting properly.

- erik


  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-12-19 14:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-12-19 12:00 Alasdair Reed
2007-12-19 12:02 ` Federico G. Benavento
2007-12-19 14:21 ` erik quanstrom [this message]
2007-12-26  6:28 ` ron minnich

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=0cb316f085d2c4942ac20e0c92fdb9ce@quanstro.net \
    --to=quanstro@quanstro.net \
    --cc=9fans@cse.psu.edu \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for NNTP newsgroup(s).