SuSE 9.3 dhcpcd sometimes not setting default route

Is there a known problem with the DHCP client daemon (dhcpcd) of
SuSE Linux 9.3 Professional setting the IP address but not the
default gateway? I have encountered this for the second time now,
on two systems which are completely different except that both run
SuSE Linux 9.3 Professional and get their IP address through DHCP.
(One a notebook with an IPW2200 wireless adapter, the other a
stationary PC with a trusty old 3Com 3c905.)

Symptoms: user complains of "no internet"; network interface is up
and has a correct IP address, but netstat -rn doesn't show an entry
for 0.0.0.0. If I do a manual "route add" everything works.
Sometimes "rcnetwork restart" also does the trick, but on other
occasions only reproduces the same situation.

Any ideas on how to debug this?

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Tilman

On Wed, 21 Dec 2005 13:41:44 +0000, Tilman Schmidt wrote:

> Is there a known problem with the DHCP client daemon (dhcpcd) of SuSE
> Linux 9.3 Professional setting the IP address but not the default gateway?
> I have encountered this for the second time now, on two systems which are
> completely different except that both run SuSE Linux 9.3 Professional and
> get their IP address through DHCP. (One a notebook with an IPW2200
> wireless adapter, the other a stationary PC with a trusty old 3Com 3c905.)
>
> Symptoms: user complains of "no internet"; network interface is up and has
> a correct IP address, but netstat -rn doesn't show an entry for 0.0.0.0.
> If I do a manual "route add" everything works. Sometimes "rcnetwork
> restart" also does the trick, but on other occasions only reproduces the
> same situation.
>
> Any ideas on how to debug this?

Do you have multiple NICs in the boxes? If so it's problem with DHCP not
setting the default gw on what it regards as the secondary interface. I
can;t find the docs right now, but this has been discussed here before...

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On 24.12.2005 01:27, Mark Robinson wrote:

> On Wed, 21 Dec 2005 13:41:44 +0000, Tilman Schmidt wrote:
>
>
>>Is there a known problem with the DHCP client daemon (dhcpcd) of SuSE
>>Linux 9.3 Professional setting the IP address but not the default gateway?
>>I have encountered this for the second time now, on two systems which are
>>completely different except that both run SuSE Linux 9.3 Professional and
>>get their IP address through DHCP. (One a notebook with an IPW2200
>>wireless adapter, the other a stationary PC with a trusty old 3Com 3c905.)
>
> Do you have multiple NICs in the boxes?

On one of them, yes. The notebook has a (rarely used) Ethernet interface
as well as the (normally used) wireless one. But the other is just a
plain PC with a single Ethernet interface.

> If so it's problem with DHCP not
> setting the default gw on what it regards as the secondary interface. I
> can;t find the docs right now, but this has been discussed here before...

Do you have any reference, keyword or the like? I can't seem to find
anything relevant in the archives.

Thanks
Tilman

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Tilman Schmidt <t.schmidt@phoenixsoftware.de> wrote in news:sYcqf.1462
$jX2.769@prv-forum2.provo.novell.com:

> Any ideas on how to debug this?

You could try dhclient instead of dhcpd. This fixed it for me with one of
the previous SuSE versions and my Wireless NIC.
Install "dhcp-client" through Yast, then go to the /etc/sysconfig editor,
Network, DHCP, DHCP-Client and set it to dhclient.

Uwe

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