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Raspberry PI no IP Address

I have and older model Raspberry PI which used DHCP to obtain its ip address.

I recently moved my data center and powered off all my devices including my Rasberry PI

When I run ifconfig I only see ipv6 address no ipv4 addess

eth0 is not configured from what I can tell

I use to be able to ssh in the box but the device with my dhcp address is not assigned.

Any ideas on how I can setup my network on this device again?

Dr. Klahn

Under recent releases of linux, network interfaces have device-unique names such as "enp0s1" No longer is eth0 the first ethernet interface. As you might expect this broke, and continues to break, quite a lot of things. Since you refer to "eth0" in the problem statement I suspect you are seeing some fallout from that.

You could:

a) come forward to a more recent release of linux and embrace the device-unique name scheme
b) apply the eth0 workaround to your existing linux -- but it ain't "just that simple"; see the link below, and if you use a systemd init instead of a SysV init, it's probably too complicated for the average user to attempt
c) troubleshoot the existing system ad-hoc using the device-unique name.

I use a SysV init and found it easiest to leave all my config files as they were and return the ethernet interface to the previous eth0 name.

https://wiki.debian.org/NetworkInterfaceNames

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Yes the PI is on the same vlan as my DHCP servers

No sure about the answers to the device

checking some thing now

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Any clou to the actual problem? So other can benefit as well.