> I tried "dhclient" and I get "no manual entry for dhclient".
That would the output if you tried "man dhclient" and dhclient wasn't installed.
Some distros use "dhcpcd" instead, so you may have to use that.
You also mentioned that you chose a different IP range. Also be aware that some
networks cannot be used internally.
>
> William
>
> --- Kwan Lowe <kwan@digitalhermit.com> wrote:
>
>> In Linux you can try the "dhclient" program (run as root). It will attempt to
>> grab
>> an IP address via DHCP.
>>
>> It's not entirely clear if you're having an DHCP client issue or possibly a DNS
>> problem. If you run dhclient on the Linux machine, does "ifconfig -a" show an IP
>> address in the DHCP range? Does "cat /etc/resolv.conf" reflect your correct DNS
>> server?
>>
>> Try posting the output of "ifconfig -a" before and after you run dhclient.
>>
>
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