Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 04 Jan 2001 23:41:50 +1100 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: DHCP Problems with 3com 3c905C Tornado |
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Christian Loth wrote: > > Hello all,
Hi, Christian.
> I recently installed a system with the 3c905C > NIC on RedHat 6.2. In our network, IP adresses > are granted via DHCP, although every host has > a fixed IP instead of a dynamic IP pool. The IP > is statically coupled with the MAC adresses of > our network.
hmm.. I've heard of this once before. Running pump from the RH initscripts?
> The freshly installed RedHat 6.2 worked nice > and flawlessly, and the IP was handed out correctly > to the new machine. However after upgrading > to the 2.2.16 RedHat Kernel RPMS, the DHCP negotiation > no longer worked! Okay, I said, maybe it is a RedHat > thing (they included modules both for the 90x and for the 59x > cards, and I tried both),
Did _both_ 3c90x and 3c59x fail, or only 3c59x?
> so I downloaded 2.2.18 proper. > I compiled in the support for the card, but also: same > result. The old 2.2.14 RedHat kernel worked, but the > newer kernels did not. > > Unfortunately the machine had to go on the net, so I had > to switch the NIC for a DEC Tulip one, which worked flawlessly > under 2.2.18 again. Therfore I unfortunately can't volunteer > for testing :(, all I can say is that something happened > between 2.2.14 and 2.2.16/2.2.18 which made DHCP inoperable > for the 3c905C.
Thanks. I'll try to reproduce this (fat chance :(). Is there any chance you can set this arrangement up again in the future? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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