[SLE] [Fwd: [SLE] Please test: dhcpcd, an alternative DHCP client]
-- Ron Morgan jr. Cyrix Dallas Texas //If you remain calm, You dont know all the facts! // ronm@cyrix.com gojoe@home.com <STRONG>attached mail follows:</STRONG><HR> ok I have done what you discribed here and I still have a few questions cause its not working.. I know that it is user error and all of the things I have been trying for the last month and a half have come just short. 1 do I need to have dhclient and the dhcpcd rpm that you have provided installed? or do I uninstall dhclient first? 2 when Im done whats next? what is a good way to see if its all working? do I just ping something or is there some steps to go through? I have to say that I am about to give up on this and that would be a shame as I have come so far. but this is usless to me if I cant get on the web with a cable modem. I have been trying and reading everything I can get my hands on but there is really not much in the way of helps for cable modems. if you write me back please assume I am an extreem newbe and please dont skip anything as I think this is the problem that I am running into time and time again. the mailing list guys are nice and all that but they seem to leave out steps and think that i must know "that I have to this before that" does that make sense? thanks Ron Lenz Grimmer wrote:
Hi,
because of the lot of complaints about our DHCP client "dhclient", I have created an alternative package, using the "dhcpcd" DHCP client. It basically works as the old client (same variables in rc.config, same init script), so it can be used as a plug-in replacement for dhclient. YaST will be modified that it will simply check, if a package providing a dhcp_client is installed (which both packages will provide). It conflicts with dhclient, so you have to remove this package first. Unfortunately you cannot use the current YaST for the configuration, since it checks for the existence of dhclient. But you can test it by modifying rc.config directly. For example, if you want to use the client on eth0, modifiy the following lines in /etc/rc.config:
NETCONFIG="_0" IPADDR_0="" NETDEV_0="eth0" IFCONFIG_0="dhcpclient" DHCLIENT="yes"
I would like to get some feedback about it, especially if you had trouble with the old client. You can get the RPM for SuSE Linux 6.3 (i386) from here:
ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/people/grimmer/misc/dhcpcd-1.3.18p3-0.i386.rpm
Thanks in advance! I hope, this will finally solve this dreaded DHCP issue.
Bye, LenZ
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Did not work for me. I tried as advertised, I tried reversing eth0 and eth1 because I heard there was a problem with that. I tried booting a couple of times. I tried increasing the timeout. I'm sorry to say that I am giving up on this one. The linux box I was trying to install this on is my mailserver, and every minute it is down, my mail bounces. I must have dedicated 10-12 hours of downtime to trying to figure this out, when Red Hat's dhcpcd worked flawlessly for me first time. For reference, I have a P133 Red Hat 5.2 box hooked up to a Media One Road Runner cablemodem through eth0 and a hub to my intranet in eth1. It runs ipfwadm, apache, sendmail, ftpd, sshd, seti@home, majordomo, etc. I wanted to move to Suse, but if dhclient does not work, then well, it's not much of a firewall, is it? I have since wiped out the Suse partition. If someone else with a .ne.mediaone.net box has successfully gotten an IP address using similar hardware and is willing to tell me how, I would be willing to try again though. -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/
A dumb question. Did you reset the RR box each time before you try to run dhcpcd from a different card? And you mention dhclient, which we know does not work well, With no mention of dhcpcd except in the subject. How will you run a mail server from a non static ip? dhcpcd does keep the same ip as long as it can, but it will change. AFAIK. dhcpcdFunn!! David Kramer wrote:
Did not work for me. I tried as advertised, I tried reversing eth0 and eth1 because I heard there was a problem with that. I tried booting a couple of times. I tried increasing the timeout.
I'm sorry to say that I am giving up on this one. The linux box I was trying to install this on is my mailserver, and every minute it is down, my mail bounces. I must have dedicated 10-12 hours of downtime to trying to figure this out, when Red Hat's dhcpcd worked flawlessly for me first time.
For reference, I have a P133 Red Hat 5.2 box hooked up to a Media One Road Runner cablemodem through eth0 and a hub to my intranet in eth1. It runs ipfwadm, apache, sendmail, ftpd, sshd, seti@home, majordomo, etc. I wanted to move to Suse, but if dhclient does not work, then well, it's not much of a firewall, is it?
I have since wiped out the Suse partition. If someone else with a .ne.mediaone.net box has successfully gotten an IP address using similar hardware and is willing to tell me how, I would be willing to try again though.
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On Wed, 9 Feb 2000, Michael H. Collins wrote:
A dumb question. Did you reset the RR box each time before you try to run dhcpcd from a different card?
Yes. Full scientific method, only changin one thing between reboots.
And you mention dhclient, which we know does not work well, With no mention of dhcpcd except in the subject.
Yes I tried both.
How will you run a mail server from a non static ip? dhcpcd does keep the same ip as long as it can, but it will change. AFAIK.
Yes, but typically you keep an IP address for a year or so with M1X. Maybe after I rebuild my server I'll use one of the free services to get around this, but it's a low priority to me. I've had the service for over a year, and I got renumbered once. ------------------------------------------------------------------- DDDD David Kramer http://kramer.ne.mediaone.net DK KD DKK D It is better to be defeated on principle than to win on lies DK KD DDDD Arthur Calwell -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/
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