Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Mon, 08 Jan 2001 20:12:20 +1100 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: DHCP Problems with 3com 3c905C Tornado |
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Tim Wright wrote: > > Sounds somewhat familiar. The pump that came with RedHat 6.2 never worked > correctly at work, but dhcpcd worked just fine (we don't have static IP > addresses, but there are fewer machines than there are addresses in the pool, > so effectively, we do :-). The odd thing is that I (mis?)understood in this > case that dhcpcd was not working either (unless I'm confusing this with a > different thread). Suffice to say that newer versions of pump seem to work > much better, at least for me.
No, you're not confused. Someone did mention that dhcpcd was playing up.
Obviously, something changed between 2.2.14 and more current kernels which broke pump. I don't believe it's a driver change because it also affects the 3c90x driver. I don't have a theory as to why this affects the 3com NICs though. But I'm assuming that whatever broke pump also broke dhcpcd.
I note that with 3c59x in 2.4.0, pump-0.7.3 basically freezes up. It spits out a single bootp packet then goes to lunch. I got bored waiting after ten minutes. So an upgrade is definitely needed.
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