enable to get DHCP adress

[salem_3]

Hi

I couldn't get dynamic adress on my alpha server using Tru64 V5.1B ,the DHCP server is an Win 2K server .
Thanks.
Ryad.

[Ivan Ferreira]

What do you get when you run:

rcinet restart

What is logged on the system event log.

Have you configured with sysman net_wizard the network adapter to use DHCP?

[Al Licause]

The ability to aquire a dhcp address on a Tru64unix system has never been terribly robust.

But in order for anyone to determine what may be wrong in your case, you'll need to supply more information. As Ivan suggests, if you received any errors, please report them.
Please supply specifics of the dhcp configuration on the unix system.

Also tell us if the dhcp server is in the same LAN segment or must traverse a router.

[salem_3]

After rebooting the system it won't enable graphical interface and ask me to run Failsafe session then cheking /etc/hosts .
So after cheking all the entry under /etc/hosts it seems correct,there is two entry :127.0.0.1 localhost alpha
DYNAMIC alpha

Thanks

[Ivan Ferreira]

Did you get the ip address? You must have in your hosts configuration the server name as returned by "hostname".

[Al Licause]

The graphical interface won't start, and I suspect you're using CDE, because all of the network parameters it's looking for aren't CDE expects them to be or with the expected values.

To get around CDE, you might try this:

in $HOME/.dtprofile:

DTNONETWORK = true

This should allow CDE to start without a network configuration.

But it appears you're still not getting a response from the dhcp server or if you are, the host is not setting the correct parameters.

First things first......you still haven't really provided the basics and without those all we can do is speculate and try to come up with reasons as to why it doesn't work.

Minimally you should include the version of the OS you're running as well as any details of the configuration.....for example what is in your /etc/rc.config for NUM_NETCONFIG, NETDEV_0 and IFCONFIG_0 ?

Make sure this correction has been included:

In order to get joinc to work correctly on a tru64 unix system
you must modify the line in /sbin/init.d/inet which calls joinc.
That line looks like this by default:

#/usr/sbin/joinc >/dev/null 2>&1 &

It should be modified to look like this:

/usr/sbin/joinc -d1 >/dev/null 2>&1 &

The -d1 flag tells joinc to run in debug mode which changes the timing slightly.

Don't expect anything but ip address and hostname to be configured by joinc.....if you do, you'll have to program it yourself.

If these suggestions don't work, please post details.