>-----Original Message----- >From: fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx >[mailto:fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Wandell, Doug >Sent: Tuesday, October 23, 2007 7:10 PM >To: For users of Fedora >Subject: RE: Dhclient problem > > >'prepend routers 0.0.0.0' in /etc/dhclient.conf works! Thank you very >much. I'm guessing I can use an 'option router' statement in my subnet >declaration on the server side as well...? I'll experiment. Thanks >again. >DW A bit of a correction: This works for me only when there exists either an /etc/dhclient-enter-hooks or /etc/dhclient-exit-hooks file containing exactly this: route add default dev eth0 Not sure exactly why this is, but it works. > > >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. - >---------------------------------------------------------------------- > >-- >fedora-list mailing list >fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx >To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > >-- >fedora-list mailing list >fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx >To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list >
