Re: dhclient

[Michel Dänzer <michdaen@iiic.ethz.ch>]

Philipp von Weitershausen wrote:

> I just connected my Pismo to my new employer's network. They have DHCP so I
> just started dhclient. The program told me that CONFIG_PACKET and
> CONFIG_FILTER is not set. It *is* set though. Then I had a closer look at it
> and saw that there is dhclient-2.0.x and dhclient-2.2.x. The dhclient scripts
> started dhclient-2.2.x as my machine is running a 2.4 benh kernel. This was
> the one that complained about the kernel config.
> 
> I started dhclient-2.0.x manually. It sent out DHCPREQUESTs and
> DHCPDISCOVERs but there was no response.

I wouldn't expect the 2.0 version to work when there is a 2.2 version. The
latter works for me.

> Some co-worker told me that I must not have any IP in my config files. So I
> set up /etc/network/interfaces for DHCP and restarted the network.
> Surprisingly I got an IP address and a route, but no DNS - and it was a
> completely different network than all my co-workes had.
> 
> I rebooted and the network config script would take real long. When I looked
> at ifconfig, I had no IP. I was not able to make it work again ever since.
> It's just not taking any IP. Co-workers told me that they have a strange
> setup but my parallel-installed MacOS properly takes IP, route and DNS
> without bitching around. So do all Windoze machines here.

Maybe dhclient has problems with Windoze servers? Have you tried pump (which
in turn fails in my office where dhclient works) yet?


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