Bug#442374: debian-installer: network configuration with DHCP sometimes breaks

[Toni Mueller <support@oeko.net>]

Package: debian-installer
Severity: minor


Hi,

I recently installed an Etch machine in a private network where there
are DHCP addresses handed out. They use a /16 network, and on most
occasions (I had several attempts at it), the installer reported that
the network configuration didn't succeed. But switching to another
console and saying "ifconfig" showed that networking actually was
configured correctly. Repeating the auto-configuration attempt mostly
yielded a failure, only on one attempt it said "succeeded".


Best,
--Toni++


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (600, 'stable'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-5-xen-amd64
Locale: LANG=de_DE.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)