Re: [Sheflug] Blue Yonder + Linux

["Chris J/#6" <nospam [at] nccnet.co.uk>]

> I'm using SuSE 6.2  and managed to get dhclient to pick up an IP address for
> my ethernet card last night. As I have heard people say use dhcpcd rather
> than "pump" i was wondering what issues there may be with dhclient that I am
> unaware of.

I had problems getting dhclient to renew the lease properly - when 
sending a DHCP_RENEW, no response was received...still trying to bottle 
this one down as it seems that any DHCP request sent straight to a 
server, rather than broadcasted, doesn't get a response...dhcpcd exhibits 
the same behaviour but if a direct send fails it does a broadcast and 
that works. Still trying to trace this one.

>  
> Also I'm wondering how best to set up the /etc/rc.config, and configure the
> start up stuff so that dhcp is done before IP masquerading and ip chains.  
> 
> At the moment I have set up in rc.config eth0 to have ip adress 0.0.0.0
> subnet 0.0.0.0 and gw 0.0.0.0 and then run  dhclient eth0 manually.
> 
> Surely there is a better way though - any pointers? 
> 

SuSE allows you to plonk, I think it was "dhcpc" or "dhclient" or 
something similar in the IFCONFIG_[0123] string and it brought dhcp up on 
the interface...this I only found out after reading one of the rc scripts 
(whichever one brings the network up). Consult the script :)

Didn't work properly on my mahcine - mostly 'cos the net card I use (ISA 
3com 3c509) needed a module loaded in first (typical ISA :) and the 
auto-load wasn't working that early in the RC boot sequence.

YMMV :)

Chris...


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