Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 28 Apr 2001 23:11:51 +0100 | From | Michael F Gordon <> | Subject | Re: 2.4.4 breaks dhcpcd with Realtek 8139 |
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On Sat, Apr 28, 2001 at 11:29:15AM -0700, David Lang wrote: > what sort of switch are you plugged into? some Cisco switches have a > 'feature' that ignores all traffic from a port for X seconds after a > machine is plugged in / powered on on a port (they claim somehting about > preventing loops) it may be that the new kernel now boots up faster then > the old one so that the DHCP request is lost in the switch, a few seconds > later when you do it by hand the swich has enabled your port and > everything works.
I'm plugged in to a cable modem, with the DHCP server at the ISP. The server requires the MAC address to be registered, so sending the DHCP request with a different MAC address could cause the symptoms. I doubt it's a timing problem - replacing the 8139 driver with the 2.4.3 version but otherwise using the distributed 2.4.4 makes DHCP work as expected.
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