DHCP failure on SuSE 9.1

I'm running Suse 9.1 on a Dell iassistancee100

The dhcp client appears not to be functioning correctly.

I connot get automatic updates to either default gateway or dns servers.
The only way I can get the client up on the network is to manually plug in
the default gateway and dns servers into Yast and reload the network
service.

Has anyone else seen this? Suggestions?

Much thanks for your thoughtful assistance,

_______________dhcp status_____________________
the DHCP status utility shows the following:

# ifstatus-dhcp eth1
dhcpcd running
eth1 is up
3: eth1: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,NOTRAILERS,UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast qlen
1000
link/ether XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
inet 10.1.1.4/16 brd 10.1.255.255 scope global eth1
inet6 fe80::209:5bff:fe89:d20a/64 scope link
valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
eth1 IP address: 10.1.1.4/16 (DHCP)

current lease for eth1:
IPADDR=10.1.1.4
NETMASK=255.255.0.0
GATEWAY=10.1.1.2
DNS=10.1.0.1,10.1.1.2
DHCPSIADDR=10.1.1.2
DHCPCHADDR=xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx

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