Bug#109455: dhcp non-functional 3.0.11

[Daniel Bungert <drb210@psu.edu>]

On Mon, Aug 20, 2001 at 09:52:57PM -0500, Stephen Waters wrote:
> Package: boot-floppies
> Version: 3.0.11
>
> Something with regard to DHCP appears broken. dhclient-2.2.x reports
> that it is successful, but it is not.

Yes, this happened to me too.  In my case, the dhcpd was expecting
our dhcp client to release the current lease before a different client
could obtain a new lease. (Cable modem stuff; I suppose this is their
way of attempting to limit the cable modem to one user.)  In the
process, the dhcpd would not give a lease to the Debian testing client I
was setting up; dhclient went to sleep and appeared to return
success.[1]

-Dan

[1] No, I have no proof, just a blind guess.

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