[Bug 351378] Re: dhclient fails for virtual interfaces (IP aliases)

2011-09-09 Thread valerio
and on Ubuntu 11.04 desktop. It does not look secondary to me that default dhcp client can't work on virtual interfaces. What about you, ubuntu's guys? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Server Team, which is subscribed to dhcp3 in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launch

[Bug 351378] Re: dhclient fails for virtual interfaces (IP aliases)

2010-12-08 Thread DinkyDogg
Confirming this bug is still present on Ubuntu 10.10 desktop and 10.04 server. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Server Team, which is subscribed to dhcp3 in ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/351378 Title: dhclient fails for virtual interfaces (IP a

[Bug 351378] Re: dhclient fails for virtual interfaces (IP aliases)

2009-04-07 Thread Tom Metro
Here's the summary how how to work around this bug: First, if you're using Dnsmasq on the server-side you might run into Bug #327703. The Dnsmasq author has a patched version available. 1. On Hardy, download and install the attached dhcp3-client dummy package: % sudo dpkg -i dhcp3-client-dummy_3

Re: [Bug 351378] Re: dhclient fails for virtual interfaces (IP aliases)

2009-04-07 Thread Tom Metro
Bryan McLellan wrote: > Tom Metro wrote: >> I'll have to take a look at ubuntu-minimal to see what it is. > > It's a meta package... I figured that from the name, but I wondered what packages it pulled in, and what the consequences were for removing it were. > Uninstalling it would mean that in

[Bug 351378] Re: dhclient fails for virtual interfaces (IP aliases)

2009-04-06 Thread Tom Metro
I've opened Bug #356800, "ifconfig fails to initiaize a virtual interface with a zero IP address." This bug should be made dependent on it. (I didn't see a way to do that.) -- dhclient fails for virtual interfaces (IP aliases) https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/351378 You received this bug notifica

Re: [Bug 351378] Re: dhclient fails for virtual interfaces (IP aliases)

2009-04-03 Thread Bryan McLellan
On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 1:20 PM, Tom Metro wrote: > Removing ubuntu-minimal sounds like something to be avoided, but there > was mention of people doing that (as a side effect of removing the > wireless package) in the bug this one was split off from, and it didn't > sound like it caused any proble

Re: [Bug 351378] Re: dhclient fails for virtual interfaces (IP aliases)

2009-04-03 Thread Tom Metro
Bryan McLellan wrote: > Most likely that comment and surely that code is to > support the inclusion of an alias definition in your dhclient.conf(5), > as opposed to running dhclient on an alias interface. Ah, right. You're probably right. The dhclient.conf(5) man page also mentions pseudo interfa

Re: [Bug 351378] Re: dhclient fails for virtual interfaces (IP aliases)

2009-04-03 Thread Bryan McLellan
On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 11:20 PM, Tom Metro wrote: > That may be partly right. I see /sbin/dhclient-script contains the > comment: > > # The alias handling in here probably still sucks. -mdz > > and there's clearly evidence that it is attempting to support virtual > interfaces: > >if [ -n "

[Bug 351378] Re: dhclient fails for virtual interfaces (IP aliases)

2009-04-02 Thread Tom Metro
Bryan McLellan wrote: > These two errors are because dhclient-script does not support alias > interfaces. That may be partly right. I see /sbin/dhclient-script contains the comment: # The alias handling in here probably still sucks. -mdz and there's clearly evidence that it is attempting to s

[Bug 351378] Re: dhclient fails for virtual interfaces (IP aliases)

2009-04-02 Thread Bryan McLellan
I believe this is a missing feature of ISC's dhclient. I can't find any mention in the source of supporting virtual/alias interfaces outside of the alias declaration in dhclient.conf(5) that allows you to specify a static address to be applied to an alias interface in addition to the address acquir

[Bug 351378] Re: dhclient fails for virtual interfaces (IP aliases)

2009-04-02 Thread Bryan McLellan
SIOCSIFFLAGS: Cannot assign requested address SIOCSIFFLAGS: Cannot assign requested address These two errors are because dhclient-script does not support alias interfaces. If you don't use this script, those errors go away. However it's likely dhclient doesn't support alias interfaces at all, a di

[Bug 351378] Re: dhclient fails for virtual interfaces (IP aliases)

2009-03-31 Thread Tom Metro
Attached is an archive containing the output of: # strace -ff -F -o /tmp/dhclient.strace dhclient eth0:0 There is already a pid file /var/run/dhclient.pid with pid 134519072 Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client V3.0.6 Copyright 2004-2007 Internet Systems Consortium. All rights reserve

[Bug 351378] Re: dhclient fails for virtual interfaces (IP aliases)

2009-03-31 Thread Tom Metro
Forum threads relating to this issue: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=918015 http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=515162 -- dhclient fails for virtual interfaces (IP aliases) https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/351378 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu

[Bug 351378] Re: dhclient fails for virtual interfaces (IP aliases)

2009-03-31 Thread Tom Metro
Commenting on some of the comments in Bug #123773. In Bug #123773 Jamie Strandboge wrote: > ...though ifup (and ifdown) will give that error, the interface > comes up fine, and is pingable In this case the interface doesn't come up. In comment https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ifupdown/