Re: 2.6.13-rc2+ - problem with DHCP

[Russell King <rmk+lkml@arm.linux.org.uk>]

On Sat, Oct 01, 2005 at 07:58:26PM +0200, Patrick McHardy wrote:
> Radoslaw Szkodzinski wrote:
> >These kernels just do not get the IP from DHCP.
> >I think the problem is caused by Mercurial tree changeset 8919 (more
> >likely) or 8918.
> >
> >At least the last tested working one is:
> >changeset:   8917:07c96175a75e
> >user:        Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
> >date:        Tue Sep 13 21:00:14 2005 +0011
> >summary:     [NETFILTER]: Simplify netbios helper
> >
> >Probably the culprit is:
> >changeset:   8919:61b9c3185973
> >user:        Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
> >date:        Tue Sep 13 21:00:55 2005 +0011
> >summary:     [NETFILTER]: Fix DHCP + MASQUERADE problem
> 
> Are you sure? The patch was supposed to fix problems with DHCP clients
> using regular UDP sockets for sending DHCP requests. Which client are
> you using?

I tried booting 2.6.14-rc2 on my firewall last Wednesday and it failed
to get its IP address via bootp.  I did not see any packets being
transmitted from the machine.

I was going to do some investigation this weekend until I also found
that it would mean that PCMCIA on the box would be busted, which,
unfortunately, means it's useless to run a later kernel.  Hence the
investigation is shelved until I've sorted out PCMCIA userland.

-- 
Russell King
 Linux kernel    2.6 ARM Linux   - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/
 maintainer of:  2.6 Serial core