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Re: problems with dhcpd3-server



On Fri, Jun 23, 2006 at 05:26:11PM -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 23, 2006 at 04:27:09PM -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> > According to RFC 2132, option 51 MUST by 4 in length, so unless there is
> > a newer spec (which would be incompatible with prior dhcp versions),
> > then the dhcp server is currently buggy/broken.
> > 
> > Probably the code uses long somewhere that was supposed to be 32bit, but
> > on amd64 that is 64bit.
> 
> By the way according to the changelog of dhcp3-server in sid, on Tuesday
> of this week, a patch to deal with problems on 64bit systems was
> applied.  So if you get dhcp3-server 3.0.4-6, it might actually work
> properly on a 64bit system now.
> 
> See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=368302 for details
> of the bug filed about 64bit problems.

Nice grab, I didn't even look at sid.  At least I know the clients
aren't to blame.

Thanks,

a



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