Re: DHCP

Allen Goldstein (gold@u.washington.edu)
Sat, 9 Jan 1999 15:36:41 -0800 (PST)


On Sat, 9 Jan 1999, Alessandro Suardi wrote:
Interesting. Thanks for the info.

> Allen Goldstein wrote:
>
> Client is RH5.2 with a PCMCIA 3Com 3c589 with dhcpcd-1.3.16 and server is
> RH5.2 > with stock DHCP server, ie:
>
> [asuardi@dogbert asuardi]$ rpm -q dhcp > dhcp-2.0b1pl6-2
>
> kernels are 2.1.132 on the client and 2.2.0pre5 on the server.
>
> Fun things:
>
> 1: my DHCP client doesn't work under 2.0.36 -- perhaps because I compiled it
> with the 2.1.12x kernel headers (tries to modprobe pf-17 [yes, "pf-17"]
> then fails connecting to the socket... I'd rebuild the kernel including
> CONFIG_PACKET, if I were under 2.1.xxx+ :)
> 2: I had random non-connections but today I discovered that the coax cable
> on the server end is probably a bit unstable (moving it caused a failing
> 'ping' to become alive...) so I guess software always worked.
>
>
> Cheers,
>
> --alessandro <asuardi@uninetcom.it> <asuardi@it.oracle.com>
>
> Linux 2.0.36/2.2.0pre5 glibc-2.0.7-29 gcc-2.8.1 binutils-2.9.1.0.19a
>
> "I hate bugs which disappear just as soon as you start trying to
> narrow things down." -- Stephen Tweedie
>

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