Re: [Sheflug] Blue Yonder + Linux

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

Alex doodled:
> Linux has 'interesting' problems with DHCP. Most of it is down to routing.
> The usual one is to add a route to 255.255.255.255, something like:
> 
> 	route add -host 255.255.255.255 dev eth0


I believe you only have to do that if running a DHCP server - though 
could be wrong :) I do /not/ have that in my route config for client-side 
DHCP and it works fine. And I seem to remember only reading it the docs 
for dhcpd...

It may be that older kernels you had to set the route up, though how old 
I dunno ... 2.2.14, 2.2.19 and 2.4.3 have all been playing nicely, 
however.

Chris...



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