DHCP client setup on 700.

[Jim Pryde_1]

Have a 725/100. Am connected to a 3Com lanmodem. The only way the LanModem
will work is if it assigns an IP number to the device with DHCP. I have set DHCP_
ENABLE[0]=1 in the netconf file. But DHCP does not seem to be working when I
boot the 725/100 using HP-UX 11.0. The LanModem never seems to assign an IP
to the 725/100. I have a LINUX system and Window98 system on this network and
they seem to work fine. Is there somthing else I must do to get DHCP working?
I tried using SAM, but It only seem to be useful to set up as a DHCP server- not as
a client. Is there any documentation on setting up a HP workstation as a DHCP client??

[Alex Glennie]

check the permissions of /sbin/auto_parms

This file is only used for dhcp; these permissions will prevent it
from executing : 444

also check the 10.20 release nore : /usr/share/doc : do a search for DHCP or dhcpclient, there's info on this in them I beleive ?

[Jim Pryde_1]

Thanks,
The permissions on /sbin/auto_parms were 644. Changed to 777.
Not much info in usr/share/doc about dhcp. Still not getting an assigned IP
address from the 3Com LanModem, so I end up with 127.0.0.1 as the
default . With 127.0.0.1 CDE will not load.

[Berlene Herren]

For starts, I would run dhcptools -d and take a look at the files it creates in /tmp.

Try this:

1: ENABLE_DHCP=1 in netconf
2: rm /etc/dhcp*
3: touch /etc/dhcpclient.data
4: reboot system


Berlene