From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: erik quanstrom Date: Fri, 9 Jul 2010 20:39:35 -0400 To: 9fans@9fans.net Message-ID: In-Reply-To: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [9fans] ipconfig DHCP problems Topicbox-Message-UUID: 3e0b4290-ead6-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Fri Jul 9 18:31:32 EDT 2010, akumar@mail.nanosouffle.net wrote: > I will also add that specifying a static > address with > > ipconfig -g gateway ether /net/ether0 ip mask > > also does not work (trying ip/ping router, > for example, gives no communication). > > So, still, what's going on? without knowing the specifics, it's very hard to say. i suppose you did try ip/ipconfig without any options at all? and that when you did try to specify everything manually, you did use either an old-school netmask like 255.255.255.0 or /120 and not /24. since all plan 9 ip addresses are stored in v6 format, the netmasks need to specify the number of bits in the network accordingly. when i debug dhcp problems, i generally start by running snoopy on the dhcp server. - erik