Re: Bug#98439: dhcp support broken

[Stephen R Marenka <stephen@marenka.net>]

On Tue, May 22, 2001 at 02:54:43PM -0700, David Whedon wrote:
> Package: boot-floppies
> Version: N/A; reported 2001-05-22
> Severity: grave
> 
> The the replacement of pump with dhcp-client has broken dhcp support on 
> boot-floppies.

I'm batting 1000 -- nothing like ojt.

[snip]

> We need to make sure af_packet.o is included on the root filesystem and do a 
> modprobe af_packet.o before trying to do dhcp.  We also need to create 
> /var/dhcp.

We shouldn't need /var/dhcp because we're using the -lf switch to
redirect the leases file to /tmp/dhcp.leases. I tested this switch on i386
and powermac and it worked fine. Perhaps this is related to the CONFIG_
issue? Adding the directory, though, probably shouldn't hurt anything?


> We also need to verify that other archs have the necessary configs.

CONFIG_PACKET=y CONFIG_FILTER=y

sun4cdm
sun4dm-pci
powerpc-pmac


CONFIG_PACKET=m CONFIG_FILTER=y

All i386.
powerpc-apus


CONFIG_PACKET=y CONFIG_FILTER=n

sun4u
powerpc-chrp


CONFIG_PACKET=m CONFIG_FILTER=n
powerpc-prep


I guest that leaves alpha and m68k. So much for consistency. 
Revert to pump on all/certain platforms? Change the kernels? 
What's the best course?

[snip]

>   expr: not found
>   [: 2: unexpected operator

I got these errors too, but everything worked fine (acquired address
consistently).


Stephen

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