Re: No address anymore for 5.99.6 dhclient with 5.99.7 kernel ?

[Nicolas Joly <njoly%pasteur.fr@localhost>]

On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 01:50:33PM -0500, Christos Zoulas wrote:
> On Jan 13,  7:29pm, njoly%pasteur.fr@localhost (Nicolas Joly) wrote:
> -- Subject: Re: No address anymore for 5.99.6 dhclient with 5.99.7 kernel ?
> 
> | On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 08:31:43PM -0500, Christos Zoulas wrote:
> | > On Jan 12, 10:49pm, njoly%pasteur.fr@localhost (Nicolas Joly) wrote:
> | > -- Subject: Re: No address anymore for 5.99.6 dhclient with 5.99.7 kernel 
> ?
> | > 
> | > | On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 09:58:34PM +0100, Nicolas Joly wrote:
> | > | > On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 04:34:45PM +0000, Christos Zoulas wrote:
> | > | > > In article <20090112140814.GA26330%medusa.sis.pasteur.fr@localhost>,
> | > | > > Nicolas Joly  <njoly%pasteur.fr@localhost> wrote:
> | > | > [...]
> | > | > > Make sure you have COMPAT_50 in your kernel config, otherwise
> | > | > > getifaddrs does not work. I.e. ifconfig -a will fail with EINVAL.
> | > | > > (it is mentioned in UPDATING)
> | > | 
> | > | I just checked again, and getifaddrs(3)/ifconfig(8) do not show any
> | > | problem.
> | > 
> | > Ok, hmm. does a ktrace show anything failing?
> | 
> | I traced both success/failure, then manually compared them and found a
> | read(2) error when trying to handle server response buffer.
> 
> Good, and what is fd 9?

   605      1 dhcpcd   CALL  open(0x40b7c9,6,0)
   605      1 dhcpcd   NAMI  "/dev/bpf"
   605      1 dhcpcd   RET   open 9

-- 
Nicolas Joly

Biological Software and Databanks.
Institut Pasteur, Paris.