DHCP broken in 2.4.x

From: John Summerfield (summer@os2.ami.com.au)
Date: Mon Nov 05 2001 - 08:49:15 EST

Next message: Lorenzo Allegrucci: "Re: VM: qsbench numbers"
Previous message: Urban Widmark: "Re: [BUG] Smbfs + preempt on 2.4.10"
Messages sorted by: [ date ] [ thread ] [ subject ] [ author ]

x in this case is 13.

As I type this my DHCP server is saying

ov 5 20:58:12 dugite dhcpd: DHCPDISCOVER from 00:c0:26:2d:be:12 via
eth0
Nov 5 20:58:12 dugite dhcpd: DHCPOFFER on 192.168.1.6 to
00:c0:26:2d:be:12 via eth0
Nov 5 20:58:15 dugite dhcpd: DHCPDISCOVER from 00:c0:26:2d:be:12 via
eth0
Nov 5 20:58:15 dugite dhcpd: DHCPOFFER on 192.168.1.6 to
00:c0:26:2d:be:12 via eth0
Nov 5 20:58:19 dugite dhcpd: DHCPDISCOVER from 00:c0:26:2d:be:12 via
eth0
Nov 5 20:58:19 dugite dhcpd: DHCPOFFER on 192.168.1.6 to
00:c0:26:2d:be:12 via eth0
Nov 5 20:58:28 dugite dhcpd: DHCPDISCOVER from 00:c0:26:2d:be:12 via
eth0
Nov 5 20:58:28 dugite dhcpd: DHCPOFFER on 192.168.1.6 to
00:c0:26:2d:be:12 via eth0
Nov 5 20:58:42 dugite dhcpd: DHCPDISCOVER from 00:c0:26:2d:be:12 via
eth0
Nov 5 20:58:42 dugite dhcpd: DHCPOFFER on 192.168.1.6 to
00:c0:26:2d:be:12 via eth0
Nov 5 20:59:06 dugite dhcpd: DHCPDISCOVER from 00:c0:26:2d:be:12 via
eth0
Nov 5 20:59:06 dugite dhcpd: DHCPOFFER on 192.168.1.6 to
00:c0:26:2d:be:12 via eth0

and the poor sod at the other end is
setting half-duplex ....
sending DHCP and RARP requests .... Timed out!
IPConfig: Retrying forever (NFS root).

Here's how I'm booting:
root@numbat /root]# cat /misc/fd1/syslinux.cfg
default linux
prompt 1
display boot.msg
timeout 100
label linux
kernel vmlinuz
append root=/dev/hda5
[root@numbat /root]

I'm running dhcp-2.0pl5-4 on RHL 7.1.

If I override the boot prompt:
ip=bootp
then it works.

Now I can see that I misunderstood the documentation (which, btw, could
use a minor touch-up to mention DHCP), but

but

According to the source code, ip=dchp is legit. However, it causes lots
of messages on the server just like above., and the client's looping
just like before.

Two things I'd like to see:
1) A message to the user if an invalid value's given
2) DHCP actually work. BOOTP seems fine, as far as BOOTP goes.

I have RARP genned, but there's not actually anything to talk to.

-- Cheers John Summerfield

Microsoft's most solid OS: http://www.geocities.com/rcwoolley/

Note: mail delivered to me is deemed to be intended for me, for my disposition.

- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Next message: Lorenzo Allegrucci: "Re: VM: qsbench numbers"
Previous message: Urban Widmark: "Re: [BUG] Smbfs + preempt on 2.4.10"
Messages sorted by: [ date ] [ thread ] [ subject ] [ author ]

This archive was generated by hypermail 2b29 : Wed Nov 07 2001 - 21:00:26 EST