I just moved my stationery/server from one town to an other and now the Internet connection have stopped working.
It is the same Internet supplier in both towns it is called Waoo Fiberbredbånd.
The server is running Gentoo Linux and the problem is that it don't get an ip address from the DHCP server.
dhcpcd[24485]: version 6.4.7 starting dhcpcd[24485]: dev: loaded udev dhcpcd[24485]: no interfaces have a carrier dhcpcd[24485]: forked to background, child pid 24506
I tried different things and discovered that if I boot a Ubuntu LiveUSB on the server it gets assigned a ip address just fine.
Then I assumed that my system was to old, so I tried to boot from a new Gentoo LiveUSB, but I got the same error.
Here is some ifconfig information from the Gentoo LiveUSB.
eth0: flags=4099 mtu 1500 ether 00:19:66:79:69:d0 txqueuelen 1000 (Ethernet) RX packets 0 bytes 0 (0.0 B) RX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 frame 0 TX packets 0 bytes 0 (0.0 B) TX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 carrier 0 collisions 0 device interrupt 45 base 0x6000 lo: flags=73 mtu 16436 inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 255.0.0.0 inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128 scopeid 0x10 loop txqueuelen 0 (Local Loopback) RX packets 4 bytes 284 (284.0 B) RX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 frame 0 TX packets 4 bytes 284 (284.0 B) TX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 carrier 0 collisions 0
And the route information from the Gentoo LiveUSB
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface loopback localhost 255.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 lo
The ifconfig information from the Ubuntu LiveUSB
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:19:66:79:69:d0 inet addr:192.168.1.135 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 inet6 addr: fe80::219:66ff:fe79:69d0/64 Scope:Link UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:28 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:49 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:3307 (3.3 KB) TX bytes:8301 (8.3 KB) Interrupt:44 Base address:0x8000 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:44 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:44 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:3312 (3.3 KB) TX bytes:3312 (3.3 KB)
And the route information from the working Ubuntu LiveUSB.
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface 192.168.1.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 1 0 0 eth0 link-local * 255.255.0.0 U 1000 0 0 eth0 default 192.168.1.1 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 eth0
So how come it is working on Ubuntu but not on Gentoo? And what are the strange 'flags=' writing in the GentooUSB ifconfig output?
dhclient
instead ofdhcpcd
. Maybe it solves the problem.