paul wrote: > installing on my ibm560x laptop with ethernet pc-card the dhcp network > configuration fails at setting default route. > > Installation media are floppies boot.img, root.img, net-drivers.img > from: > http://ftp.debian.de/debian/dists/testing/main/installer-i386/20040801/images/floppy/ > > Local network is behind dsl-router (Netgear WGR614 ). > > (1) When using the WGR614 (172.16.1.1) as dhcp server: > Choosing 'configure the network' and then 'autoconfigure network with dhcp' > it says that 'network autoconfiguration was successful. However, no default > route was set'. From the shell I can see that the /etc/resolv.conf is not > existing as well as a 'route add default gw 172.16.1.1' is missing. > option interface-mtu 0; Your dhcp server is passing an invalid MTU, which crashes /etc/dhclient-script before it can set the default route or write /etc/resolv.conf. We have a fix for this in subversion but it's not yet on any released images. You can work around this problem by commenting out lines 71-73 of /etc/dhclient-script -- see shy jo
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