DHCP problems
I'm running Debian GNU/Linux unstable on my Notebook which needs to get
its configuration via DHCP as it's connected to several networks (home,
work, ...).
Since upgrading from dhcp3-client 3.0+3.0.1rc11-4 to 3.0+3.0.1rc11-5
the dhclient stopped working correctly and my network interface isn't
brought up anymore.
If I do
# dhclient eth0
that results amongst other (usual) messages in
receive_packet failed on eth0: Network is down
and
send_packet: Network is down
If I first do:
# ifconfig eth0 up
and then
# dhclient eth0
it works. The file /etc/network/interfaces contains the lines
auto eth0
iface eth0 inet dhcp
which looks ok to me.
As mentioned above, with version 3.0+3.0.1rc11-4 it worked. To me, it
looks like dhclient previously did the "ifconfig eth0 up" itself, but
now expects somebody else to do it, but nobody does.
As a result, I have to manually bring up the network (which is
annoying) as ifup doesn't do it.
Any ideas?
--
Stefan Bellon
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