On Tue, 2007-10-23 at 18:25 -0400, Wandell, Doug wrote: > On Tue, 23 Oct 2007 17:37:10 -0400 > "Wandell, Doug" <dwandell@xxxxxxxxx> took out a #2 pencil and > scribbled: > > > I've rolled an FC6 live cd that configures eth0 via dhcp. The > > default configuration works fine > > - /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0: DEVICE=eth0 > > ONBOOT=yes > > BOOTPROTO=dhcp > > HWADDR=<MAC address> > > > > In Wireshark, I see the DHCP Discover, Offer, and ACK. No problem. > > > > As soon as I add: > > DHCLIENTARGS="-s 192.168.1.100" > > > > to /etc/sysconfig/network, dhclient hangs indefinitely. Using > > Wireshark on the dhcp server, I can see the DHCP Discover packets > > coming in, and the server's DHCP Offer response. But the FC box > > won't accept the offer. > > > > Anybody know what's going on here? > > Have you attempted to run dhclient in the foreground to see what > it's doing or possibly spitting to the terminal? Something like > > dhclient -d -s 192.168.1.100 > > This should force it to stay in the foreground and you can see what > is happening. I forget where dhclient logs. I > think /var/log/messages...but if you've been muckin' around a > lot you may have to grep for the dhclient entries. > > -- > ethericalzen@xxxxxxxxx > Life is a prison, death is a release > > > I'm making some progress - It looks like dhclient cannot reply to the > server while running in -s mode due to the lack of a gateway being > configured. I ran dhclient as you suggested - there was no output, but > while it hung, I issued a 'route add default dev eth0' in another > terminal and boom, it worked. > > Somewhere in the back of my leaky brain I seem to remember a bug report > citing something similar. Bugzilla is my next stop if I can't figure > out how to coax dhclient into setting a gateway. You can add "prepend routers www.xxx.yyy.zzz" to /etc/dhclient.conf. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Principal Engineer rstevens@xxxxxxxxxxxx - - CDN Systems, Internap, Inc. http://www.internap.com - - - - C program run. C program crash. C programmer quit. - ----------------------------------------------------------------------
