dhclient in 6.0

[kalin mintchev]

hi..

the problem is actually mine, not Marcin's.
there is no dhclient.leases because this is the first time EVER i used it
on the this brand new 6 install.  dhclient.conf is empty as always has
been for me - from 4.x till 5.4. i've never used ISC-DHCPd before. i've
been using dhclient for a while - for wi0 also - after configuring the
essentials with ifconfig (with scripts for different locations and and wep
keys)....  so yes - i know how to use dhclient...

thanks....

> On Fri, 3 Feb 2006 15:19:43 +0100
> Frank Altpeter <frank at altpeter.de> wrote:
>
>> Hi there,
>>
>> Marcin Jessa wrote on 2006-02-03 at 15:06:38 CET:
>> > What if you take your laptop to an university to hold a lecture and
>> > you are unable to run dhcp? None of the students know of the IPs
>> > avaliable in the range.
>> > Some systems disallow traffic unless your MAC-address is registered
>> > in their database. Then they open up their firewall for you.
>> > Etc, etc...
>> > Use your imagination.
>>
>> I thought your main problem would be the interaction between your dhcp
>> client and one special dhcp server in a router hardware.
>
> It works mainly well for me but I only use ISC-DHCPd on my networks.
> I noticed the problem only once when I was trying to receive a lease
> from a satellite gateway which was acting as DHCP server and NAT
> firewall. I could fetch new leases with NetBSD and Windows just fine.
> My laptop with 6.0 on and the new DHCP code was unable to talk to this
> DHCP server giving me the same errors as noticed by kalin at el.net.
>
>> This sounds like your dhcp client is not working at all, which sounds
>> a bit strange.
>
> Only with certain kind of hw/sf which in my experience were standard
> customer router boxes. Unfortunatelly I do not have access to this hw
> and cannot help with debugging of the issue.
>
>> I'm running 6.0-STABLE on my notebook for some months now without any
>> problems, and dhclient is running fine.
>
> Sure, as I said, it depends on what DHCPd you're talking to.
>
>> Perhaps we should try to find your problem first, before bashing
>> around how to get a network connection without dhcp :)
>
> Yes, it's pretty irrelevant to the problem and it seems to me like
> kalin at el.net knows how to run dhclient.
>
>
> [...]
>
> Cheers,
> Marcin.
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