Re: DHCP

Brion Vibber (brion@gizmo.usc.edu)
Sat, 5 Dec 1998 16:53:51 -0800 (PST)


On Fri, 4 Dec 1998, Allen Goldstein wrote:

>
> I've been running SMP on RH5.0 with kernel 2.0.36; also using DHCP to
> connect to my ISP. The system is constipated when unpacking gzipped tar
> files.
> It unpacks then goes out to lunch; unpacks again and goes out to lunch,
> etc.

Please check the Red Hat errata - this was solved long long ago in the
initscripts update. http://www.redhat.com/support/docs/errata.html

> I tried kernel 2.1.131. No more constipation --far from it. But
> unfortunately
> DHCP no longer works. Any ideas?

Upgrade to dhcpcd 1.3.16 or newer if available. It mostly works for me. I
don't recall the URL, look it up at http://freshmeat.net

-- brion vibber (brion@pobox.com)

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