Could not find DHCP daemon to get information on Belkin G Wifi Router

Question

I am using a Belkin G Wireless Router F5D7234, and i have a DSL connection with only a ethernet cable. So i connected the cable to the Modem port and allowed it to use Dyanmic IP, it worked successfully and an ip was assigned to it and multiple computers could connect to it and browse. But after some time the power went off and after then upon rebooting it is taking about half hour to get an IP address. Upon seeing the log i see this entry repeatedly

07/02/2010 23:22:34 DHCP Client: [WAN]Could not find DHCP daemon to get information
07/02/2010 23:22:32 DHCP Client: [WAN]Send Discover
07/02/2010 23:22:30 DHCP Client: [WAN]Send Discover
07/02/2010 23:22:28 DHCP Client: [WAN]Send Discover
07/02/2010 23:22:26 DHCP Client: [WAN]Send Discover
07/02/2010 23:22:26 DHCP Client: [WAN]Could not find DHCP daemon to get information
07/02/2010 23:22:24 DHCP Client: [WAN]Send Discover
07/02/2010 23:22:22 DHCP Client: [WAN]Send Discover
07/02/2010 23:22:20 DHCP Client: [WAN]Send Discover
07/02/2010 23:22:18 DHCP Client: [WAN]Send Discover

Any idea what i can do? I tried using another belkin router of same model and make and there also i faced the same problem.

Solution 1

I have a Belkin Wireless N router, and recently had the same issue.

08/28/2015 15:26:17 DHCP Client: [WAN]Could not find DHCP daemon to get information
08/28/2015 15:26:15 DHCP Client: [WAN]Send Discover
08/28/2015 15:26:12 DHCP Client: [WAN]Send Discover
08/28/2015 15:26:10 DHCP Client: [WAN]Send Discover
08/28/2015 15:26:08 DHCP Client: [WAN]Send Discover
08/28/2015 15:26:08 DHCP Client: [WAN]Could not find DHCP daemon to get information

The problem kept re-occurring when I cycled the router power, but when I went to the DHCP Cient List (on the router's gui page--get there by typing the router's IP address into a browser) and hit "refresh", this solved the problem for me. Hitting refresh causes the router to reset the list; if you have been using your router with another modem (like me), this may work to get the router to recognize the new modem.

Solution 2

I had a similar problem that turned out to be simple and may be the issue you have. My wireless router was connected to a Motorolla cable modem. It turns out that the cable modem only does DHCP ONCE and then doesn't dish out any more DHCP address or responds.

The solution? reset the cable modem.

So go on, try resetting your modem/router.

Comments

[Anirudh Goel]

Hi John, It turned out it wasn't a static ip in the previous question. Right now we have configured it in PPPoE mode and it is working fine, am still clueless why the dynamic mode didn't work.