Subject: Re: dhclient and cable modem
To: Christoph Leuzinger <chris@asterix.home.westworks.ch>
From: Patrick Welche <prlw1@newn.cam.ac.uk>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 04/23/2001 17:07:41
On Mon, Apr 23, 2001 at 03:34:06PM +0200, Christoph Leuzinger wrote:
... 
> Since NetBSD comes along with dhclient I have to setup this. Well,
> that's the point where the whole story is getting difficult. My
> problem is, that dhclient doesn't come further than the DHCPDISCOVER
> message. What happens is:
> 
> root@sam5035:/etc> dhclient ep1
> Internet Software Consortium DHCP Client V3.0b2pl9
> Copyright 1995-2000 Internet Software Consortium.
> All rights reserved.
> For info, please visit http://www.isc.org/products/DHCP
> 
> Listening on BPF/ep1/00:20:af:35:51:d0
> Sending on   BPF/ep1/00:20:af:35:51:d0
> Sending on   Socket/fallback
> DHCPDISCOVER on ep1 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 3
> Segmentation fault (core dumped)
                      ^^^^^^^^^^^!
1) Is anything else randomly dumping core?
2) Can you compile up a dhclient binary with symbols and see what the core
   dump has to say for itself?
3) Does the server send out a DHCPOFFER ?

Cheers,

Patrick