While I am a newbie in regards to the naming conventions of Debian, I
have been using it for about a year now with excellent success. I
have had so much success that I upgraded from my 486 "learning box"
to a dual Celeron motherboard (ABIT BP6), 30 gig disk, 10BASE-T 3COM
NIC on (cable modem side), 10/100BASE-T Linksys NIC (on internal
side) etc. Despite recently moving close to Redhat HQ, I have chosen
to stay with Debian.
I subscribed to RoadRunner in Raleigh, NC and found out that the
dhcpd I have installed (version 0.70-5) absolutely refuses to acquire
an address. I have tried the switches to put it in RFC 1541
compatibility mode, to provide the host name, etc. but have been
totally unsuccessful.
When I would try to start DHCP, I would get the following errors in
/var/log/syslog:
dhcpcd[1311]: ioctl SIOCGIFHWADDR (ifConfig): Operation not supported by device
dhcpcd[1328]: sendto (init): Operation not permitted
I have perused the dhcp-mini-howto as well as DHCP sites and found
another dhcpd which is dhcpcd-1.3.18-pl8 which appears to operate
just fine. I found it at
<ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/linux/system/network/daemons/dhcpcd-1.3.18-pl8.tar.gz>
I don't know if I'm running slink or potato or whatever, but here is
the output of uname -a:
Linux vortex 2.0.36 #2 Sun Feb 21 15:55:27 EST 1999 i686 unknown
I don't know whether this is a problem with RR's DHCP server or a
basic incompatibility or whatever. I have heard occasional mentions
that dhcpd does not like multiple NICs, but if that's the case, how
come I can put the interface name in the dhcpd configuration file? If
it is a bug, I would appreciate it if someone would guide me on how
to submit this into the Debian bug list.
If there is something I can do to make the dhcpd in the standard
Debian distribution work, please let me know.
Thanks.
-Dave Slotter
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