[ECOS] PCI Ethernet card

[Gary Thomas]

On Sat, 2003-08-09 at 04:50, Michael Anburaj wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I configured the RLTK eth driver to be eth0 (to keep things simple for now, 
> later I will try having both eth drivers).
> 
> Redboot's console dump:
> ---------------------------------
> RedBoot> ++... waiting for BOOTP information
> Ethernet eth0: MAC address 00:50:fc:9b:95:ec
> Can't get BOOTP info for device!
> 
> 
> dhcpd dump:
> -----------------
> [root@localhost bin]# /usr/sbin/dhcpd -f -d
> Internet Software Consortium DHCP Server V3.0pl1
> Copyright 1995-2001 Internet Software Consortium.
> All rights reserved.
> For info, please visit http://www.isc.org/products/DHCP
> Wrote 0 deleted host decls to leases file.
> Wrote 0 new dynamic host decls to leases file.
> Wrote 0 leases to leases file.
> Listening on LPF/eth0/00:e0:98:9e:84:96/4.35.2.0/24
> Sending on   LPF/eth0/00:e0:98:9e:84:96/4.35.2.0/24
> Sending on   Socket/fallback/fallback-net
> DHCPDISCOVER from 00:50:fc:9b:95:ec via eth0
> DHCPOFFER on 4.35.2.4 to 00:50:fc:9b:95:ec via eth0
> DHCPDISCOVER from 00:50:fc:9b:95:ec via eth0
> DHCPOFFER on 4.35.2.4 to 00:50:fc:9b:95:ec via eth0
> 
> < The same (DHCPDISCOVER-DHCPOFFER) pair repeated for a couple of times>
> 
> 
> My dhcpd.cong:
> ---------------------
> 
> allow bootp;
> ddns-update-style none; #ad-hoc;
> subnet 4.35.2.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 {
>     host atlas {
>         hardware ethernet 00:d0:a0:00:00:ed;
>         fixed-address 4.35.2.3;
>     }
> 
>     host atlasRLTK {
>         hardware ethernet 00:50:fc:9b:95:ec;
>         fixed-address 4.35.2.4;
>     }
> }
> 
> 
> RH 9 PC info:
> ------------------
> Ethernet port on the PC is set wirh the same netmask (255.255.255.0) & IP = 
> 4.35.2.2. The PC & the Atlas board are connected using a HUB. This is the 
> 1st time I am working with DHCP,/BootP please let me know where the problem 
> could be.

A couple of things to try:
 * Turn on the debug messages in the RLTK driver (..._CHATTER)
 * Run a network snooper ('ethereal' is what I use) to watch the network
   traffic.  Does the request even make it to your DHCP server machine?
   Is there a reply?

-- 
Gary Thomas <gary@mlbassoc.com>
MLB Associates


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