Subject: Re: dhclient not working
To: Simon Burge <simonb@wasabisystems.com>
From: Steven M. Bellovin <smb@cs.columbia.edu>
List: current-users
Date: 12/14/2005 23:29:08
In message <20051215042628.5DA5D23402@thoreau.thistledown.com.au>, Simon Burge 
writes:
>"Steven M. Bellovin" wrote:
>
>> After installing a new kernel and userland today, dhclient isn't 
>> working for me.  As best I can tell, it's having trouble finding the 
>> devices.  If I have device names in my dhclient.conf file, it says "not 
>> found"; if I leave them all out, it doesn't seem to send queries 
>> anywhere.  I haven't done a new MAKEDEV, but it doesn't appear to have 
>> been touched for a while.
>
>There has been some recent changes in the bpf internals, and at one
>stage someone else reported (on this list I think) that you couldn't
>load BPF programs.  This was fixed within the last day, on the kernel
>side.  Hopefully with a cvs update and new kernel you should be OK.
>

I'll try it again, but I thought I had the most up-to-date code.  


		--Steven M. Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb