On Wed, Oct 18, 2000 at 02:35:03PM -0400, Hal Burgiss wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 18, 2000 at 01:38:33PM -0400, Michael H. Warfield wrote:
> > At this point, we've pretty much confirmed that if you are running
> > pump, the interface is going to die after some period of time which
> > seems pretty close to the lease renewal time. Since switching that 7.0
> > system over to dhcpcd (by removing pump) the interface has not gone down
> > once. I'm convinced...
> Who is 'you'? Is this a royal 'you' or are you <g> referring to
> Stephen? Pump 7.0v is running fine here for two weeks on a 12 hr lease. Not
> even a hiccup.
I is me, Mike, with a network of several dozen system, four dedicated
BRI isdn lines, plus broadband with dhcp leased address with VPN's
(FreeSwan) and subnets at several sites, and a couple of colo servers
sitting at my ISP.
My son, Scott, brought up a RedHat 7.0 system which was requesting
and getting a static lease from an ISC dhcpd server running on a RedHat
6.1 system which I control here. We have not been able to stablize that
one system until we switched from pump to dhcpcd. As long as we were
using pump, the interface would appear to be fine for anywhere from a
half a day to a day (we weren't checking frequently enough to be any more
specific than that). Then the interface would mysteriously go dead.
Checking it with ifconfig revealed that it was still "up" but no longer
had an IP address assigned to it. Running ifdown and then ifup on the
interface would restore the original IP address and it would be fine
for a while again. Each time the interface went down, pump was still
up and running. Since switching from pump to dhcpcd, we have not lost
the interface address even once. None of the other systems (laptops
and such) which are using dhcp leased addresses (static or dynamic) have
been experiencing this problem, and this one system is the single RedHat
7.0 system we have fired up (he's frustrated to the point of getting
ready to go back to 6.2).
My broadband interfaces are all using dhcpcd due to a need to script
the reconfiguration of the FreeSWAN VPN's when the leases change. Outside
of that, I have been running pump on several of the other systems which
operate off of dhcp. I haven't tried to trouble shoot exactly where pump
is going dain bramaged on 7.0, but I'm now thinking "why bother?" There
comes a point in time where the correct fix for a broken application is
to use the alternative that works.
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