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Mountainjew

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From: Ireland

Registered: 2008-08-24

Posts: 405

Network problems every time i start [Solved]

So upon installing Arch, my main problem was my network configuration.

I spent forever trying to get it working. But in the end i found a post that suggest typing "dhcpcd eth0" so it will pick up a dhcp connection.

So i checked ifconfig just after booting, when it wasn't working and here's what i get

eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:1D:60:54:A5:82  
          inet addr:192.168.1.2  Bcast:192.168.1.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::21d:60ff:fe54:a582/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:442 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:488 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
          RX bytes:361983 (353.4 Kb)  TX bytes:87108 (85.0 Kb)
          Interrupt:22 

lo        Link encap:Local Loopback  
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
          inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
          RX packets:4 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:4 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 
          RX bytes:280 (280.0 b)  TX bytes:280 (280.0 b

And after typing "dhcpcd eth0" this is the result, when the connection actually works...

eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:1D:60:54:A5:82  
          inet addr:192.168.0.2  Bcast:192.168.0.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 b)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
          Interrupt:22 

lo        Link encap:Local Loopback  
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
          RX packets:4 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:4 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 
          RX bytes:280 (280.0 b)  TX bytes:280 (280.0 b)

Does anyone have any idea what the problem could be?

Last edited by Mountainjew (2008-08-25 16:49:16)

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hokasch

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Registered: 2007-09-23

Posts: 1,461

Re: Network problems every time i start [Solved]

hmm, this seems not exactly to be a problem, you just have to set up your network correctly in rc.conf. Look at the beginners guide in the wiki for how to do so.
this is the example for a dhcp network from the wiki:

HOSTNAME="arch"
#eth0="eth0 192.168.0.2 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 192.168.0.255" 
eth0="dhcp"
INTERFACES=(eth0)
gateway="default gw 192.168.0.1"
ROUTES=(!gateway)

Mountainjew

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From: Ireland

Registered: 2008-08-24

Posts: 405

Re: Network problems every time i start [Solved]

Got it, for some reason the eth0="dhcp" wasn't there....working now, thanks

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