No DHCPOFFERS received??

[Rune76]

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Hi!
I'm having some problem with my ethernet connection eth0, when I start it up it takes like five minutes before it starts, but there's no problem with the internet it's just the time it takes before it starts.
Anyway, here's my output of dhclient eth0;

sit0: unknown hardware address type 776
sit0: unknown hardware address type 776
Listening on LPF/eth0/00:60:08:54:9e:64
Sending on LPF/eth0/00:60:08:54:9e:64
Sending on Socket/fallback
DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 3
DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 4
DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 7
DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 13
DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 8
DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 14
DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 12
No DHCPOFFERS received.
No working leases in persistent database - sleeping.

If yu know how to fix this then please tell me, it's quite annoying.

[jasonlambert]

It means there are no DHCP server's on your network.

This means you should either:
a) Install a DHCP server on another PC on your network (generally NOT recommended, unless you absolutely KNOW you need to do it!)
b) (easier), configure your PC to use a static IP address, instructions follow:

NOTE: If your internet connection is provided by eth0 DONT do any of this!

1) As root, open /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 in a text editor
2) set these values in the file like so:

DEVICE=eth0
BOOTPROTO=static
IPADDR=192.168.1.2
NETMASK=255.255.255.0
NETWORK=192.168.1.0
BROADCAST=192.168.1.255
ONBOOT=yes

NOTE: If any of the options are commented out (preceeded by a #) then you need to remove the #.

3) save the file.

Of course adjust the settings according to your network setup.

[Rune76]

Thank you very much! It works very well now, actually the only thing I had to do was to copy the things you wrote and then just paste it in that file you redirected me to, without having to edit it .