[beagleboard] Beaglebone A5 cannot resolve DHCP server

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I am trying to connect my Beaglebone A5 to the internet to be able to opkg
Angstrom packages. As it stands, my ifconfig output when I have ssh'ed to
192.168.7.2 is:

root@beaglebone:~# ifconfig -a
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr D4:94:A1:91:EB:00
inet addr:169.254.172.97 Bcast:169.254.255.255 Mask:255.255.0.0
inet6 addr: fe80::d694:a1ff:fe91:eb00/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:40 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:38 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:8728 (8.5 KiB) TX bytes:12146 (11.8 KiB)
Interrupt:40

Do you know that you have a DHCP server properly configured on your
LAN to which you have connected your BeagleBone?

What is the output of 'udhcpc -i eth0' ?

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DHCP was not correctly configured, thanks for that.

Pretty embarrassing what the real issue turned out to be so I won’t get into it. To salvage some usefulness for this thread let me add that the static IP configuration outlined in the link in my original post worked perfectly.

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Most often your internet connection will serve as a DHCP server or if you have a wireless router that too could be handing out DHCP. Setting it up on a server for a home env is over kill.

If you don’t have one and are so inclined, you can probably spend about 40 bucks on a pretty basic linksys router for your internet connection. I love mine, basic, but it works great!