Re: installer fails to configure DHCP
On 27 Nov 2011, at 16:40, Francesco Pietra wrote:
> Installer debian-testing-i386-netinst.iso downloaded Nov27 2011 fails
> to configure DHCP either automatically, with hostname, or manually.
> Otherwise, the Realtek card works perfectly on this machine (I just
> wanted to reinstall in order to reshape partitions). Then, I noticed
> that this is a standing bug:
I've found the tiny DHCP client on the install images don't work under a variety of circumstances. For some reason, it becomes particularly unusable in VMware Fusion bridge mode virtual machines, but works fine if using host NAT.
I'd love to say I'm using some rubbishy proprietary DHCP server on a Cisco device or something, but I'm using plain isc-dhcp-server on an emDebian device. This sees the request, and responds. tcpdump confirms the response hits the network, so it must be a slightly broken DHCP client.
If you install using a statically assigned address then switch to DHCP after installation, you may find that once isc-dhcp-client is installed leases work just fine.
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