Re: dhcpd 3.1.2 on NetBSD/i386 5.0.1

[Ray Phillips <r.phillips%uq.edu.au@localhost>]

Chuck:

> I don't suppose there's a chance that your kernel and userland 
> libraries are out of sync about network data structures?  (Going 
> from the "Can't get interface flags for..." message.)

I don't think so.  In an effort to find the problem I'd done a fresh 
install of NetBSD and dhcpd was the only thing I'd installed.

> Have you checked/tried pkgsrc?

I hadn't but have now.  I did another fresh install of NetBSD/i386 
and used pkgsrc-2009Q2 to install the net/isc-dhcpd package.  That 
package has no dependencies and requires only one file: 
dhcp-3.1.2p1.tar.gz.  After the install (installing just this package 
creates two entries in the packages database):

dhp# pkg_info -a
digest-20080510     Message digest wrapper utility
isc-dhcp-base-3.1.2p1 ISC Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) Base
isc-dhcp-server-3.1.2p1 ISC Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) Server
dhp#

I copied /usr/pkg/share/examples/rc.d/isc_dhcpd to /etc/rc.d, put my 
configuration file in /usr/pkg/etc/dhcp and added this line to 
/etc/rc.conf:

isc_dhcpd=YES           isc_dhcpd_flags="tlp0"

(This latest install was on a different PC so the interface's name 
isn't rtk0 anymore.)

Running /etc/rc.d/isc_dhcpd start produces these lines in /var/log/messages:

Aug 26 19:18:16 dhp dhcpd: Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Server V3.1.2p1
Aug 26 19:18:16 dhp dhcpd: Copyright 2004-2009 Internet Systems Consortium.
Aug 26 19:18:16 dhp dhcpd: All rights reserved.
Aug 26 19:18:16 dhp dhcpd: For info, please visit http://www.isc.org/sw/dhcp/
Aug 26 19:18:16 dhp dhcpd: Wrote 0 leases to leases file.
Aug 26 19:18:16 dhp dhcpd: Can't get interface flags for 
L@(c^QLDV%K<*kMhF=@Hd^Q
L^F: Device not configured
Aug 26 19:18:16 dhp dhcpd:
Aug 26 19:18:16 dhp dhcpd: If you did not get this software from 
ftp.isc.org, pl
ease
Aug 26 19:18:16 dhp dhcpd: get the latest from ftp.isc.org and 
install that befo
re
Aug 26 19:18:16 dhp dhcpd: requesting help.
Aug 26 19:18:16 dhp dhcpd:
Aug 26 19:18:16 dhp dhcpd: If you did get this software from 
ftp.isc.org and hav
e not
Aug 26 19:18:16 dhp dhcpd: yet read the README, please read it before 
requesting
 help.
Aug 26 19:18:16 dhp dhcpd: If you intend to request help from the 
dhcp-server@is
c.org
Aug 26 19:18:16 dhp dhcpd: mailing list, please read the section on 
the README a
bout
Aug 26 19:18:16 dhp dhcpd: submitting bug reports and requests for help.
Aug 26 19:18:16 dhp dhcpd:
Aug 26 19:18:16 dhp dhcpd: Please do not under any circumstances send 
requests f
or
Aug 26 19:18:16 dhp dhcpd: help directly to the authors of this 
software - pleas
e
Aug 26 19:18:16 dhp dhcpd: send them to the appropriate mailing list 
as describe
d in
Aug 26 19:18:16 dhp dhcpd: the README file.
Aug 26 19:18:16 dhp dhcpd:
Aug 26 19:18:16 dhp dhcpd: exiting.

So, either I'm doing something wrong or net/isc-dhcpd is broken, 
probably the former of course.

The dhcpd that comes as part of NetBSD, /usr/sbin/dhcpd, does work 
but it's only version 3.0.3.


Ray