Bug 62068

Summary: No active network connection
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Linux Reporter: Jo Xiongen <joco>
Component: dhcpcdAssignee: Elliot Lee <sopwith>
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Description Jo Xiongen 2002-03-27 07:07:28 UTC
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Description of problem:
If I during a session is running KDE and i lock the desktop or log out, when i log in/activate the session again the network connection is gone. I try to run "/etc/rc.d/init.d/network restart" but to no help. While shutting network down ther is no mention of eth0, but while bringing network up it stops at eth0.

The NIC is an "3c900 10BaseT [Boomerang]". Note, this behavior does not happen on my laptop "Compaq Armada 1750"

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How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
Lock desktop/log out amd restart session/log in again.

Actual Results:  The network connection is lost.

Expected Results:  Networ shoulld still be availibale/active.

Additional info:

Comment 1 Elliot Lee 2002-03-27 18:50:36 UTC
Unless you can tell me how to reproduce the problem on any system, there's not
much I can do to solve it.

It's also very unlikely that the DHCP server (component 'dhcp') has anything to
do with this.

Comment 2 Jo Xiongen 2002-04-11 12:12:28 UTC
Are now running Beta2 with the same behaviour. I do not either belive it's 
DHCPD that is causing the problem (there were just not the option "Other").

On my Beta2 system I've also tried to restart the network connection 
with "/etc/rc.d/init.d/network restart". It will shut down the network but 
while initiating eth0 (configured with DHCP) it just stops. So it looks like it 
is loosing connection and then are unable to update/recive new ip adress from 
the DHCP server.

I've checked that the NIC module is still loaded and it is.

Hope this information helps extra.

Comment 3 Jo Xiongen 2002-04-12 07:45:39 UTC
I've checked and confirmed that the process dhcpd is terminatet during the 
events described before. So I fell that dhcpd is somewhat involved. And it is 
not possible to restart the dhcpd without reboot.