Bug#583139: linux-2.6: no DHCP offers on r8169

[Alexandre Rossi <alexandre.rossi@gmail.com>]

reopen 583139
thanks

Happenned again today when I had to reboot. Reverting to -22 fixed the
problem, and I guess it triggers with the DHCP leases. Do not know how
to go further on investigating this issue. I could not reproduce
because I wasn't clearing the DHCP state.

Interestingly, /var/log/daemon.log has been filling with lines like
the following (I hadn't notitced that) :
Jun 11 09:32:58 ripley0 dhclient: DHCPREQUEST on eth0 to 1.2.3.4 port 67
while running with -22lenny1, every 20 seconds or so.

Bug triggering timeline :
May 31 19:20:22 ripley0 : boot
May 31 19:23:52 ripley0 dhclient: Listening on LPF/eth0/00:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
May 31 19:23:52 ripley0 dhclient: Sending on   LPF/eth0/00:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
May 31 19:23:52 ripley0 dhclient: Sending on   Socket/fallback
May 31 19:23:55 ripley0 dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to
255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 3
May 31 19:23:55 ripley0 dhclient: DHCPOFFER from 1.2.3.4
May 31 19:23:55 ripley0 dhclient: DHCPREQUEST on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67
May 31 19:23:55 ripley0 dhclient: DHCPACK from 1.2.3.4
May 31 19:23:56 ripley0 dhclient: bound to 1.2.3.4 -- renewal in 255769 seconds.
[3 days pass, exactly the renewal time]
Jun  3 18:26:45 ripley0 dhclient: DHCPREQUEST on eth0 to 1.2.3.4 port 67
Jun  3 18:26:52 ripley0 dhclient: DHCPREQUEST on eth0 to 1.2.3.4 port 67
Jun  3 18:27:02 ripley0 dhclient: DHCPREQUEST on eth0 to 1.2.3.4 port 67
Jun  3 18:27:15 ripley0 dhclient: DHCPREQUEST on eth0 to 1.2.3.4 port 67
[many more like those, every 20 seconds]

I must reboot under -22 to renew my IP address.

Alex