DHCP Hell-OT

[Michael H. Warfield]

On Wed, Dec 05, 2001 at 06:29:25PM -0500, Ed Wiget wrote:
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> I didn't want to post to the list, but since I didn't have your email 
> address.......please don't flame me too hard for asking here.

> I knew one of the issues I posted in my previously reply would fix your 
> problem.  

> OT - but just out of curiosity, any chance you are using a tulip or rtl81xx 
> based ethernet card?  It seems those that get fixed by removing pump are 
> usually using one of those cards--at least in my research.

	Historically, I have had nothing but trouble over the years with
pump and there have been SOOOO many radically different versions with
radically different command line options and radically different bugs
that it absolutely defies imagination.  On most of my systems, both desktop
and laptop, I have been using 3Com cards, 3C589 on laptops and 3C590/900/905
on desktop/workstations.  Everytime I have EVER used pump, in RedHat 6.0,
6.1, 6.2, 7.0, 7.0respin, and 7.1 it SCREWED UP sooner or later.  In
7.1 it was usually when a lease needed to be renegotiated to an ISC
DHCP server.  Then pump would go dain bramaged and orphan the interface.
The only reliable solution I ever found was to dump pump and go with
dhcpcd.  Never had a failure after that switch.  Apparently RedHat finally
figured that out to and switch to dhcpcd in 7.2 as a default.

> Ed Wiget


> On Wednesday 05 December 2001 05:07 pm, you wrote:
> > Hello everyone!
> >
> > I thought I would follow up on this issue just in case someone stumbles
> > upon this thread.
> >
> > All the issues I was having that I thought were related to iptables, were
> > in fact, not.
> >
> > The problem was with pump.  The pump that ships with RH 7.1 would not work
> > with the DHCP server used by BigNet -- even after downloading the rpm
> > update for it.
> >
> > Instead I used DHCPCD, and it worked beautifully!  It has been 2 days now
> > with no problems.
> >
> > So I just wanted to say "Thank you" to all of you who offered help", and to
> > those who might experience the same problems:  Ditch pump, use dhcpcd if
> > you are experiencing problems!
> >
> > Thanks again!
> >
> > Chris
> >
> >
> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >-------------------------------------- Do not replay to this message
> > directly.  I wil not receive it.
> >
> > Use the following address instead. (This is to stop spam, sorry for the
> > inconvenience).
> > cditri@mediaone.net
> 
> - -- 
> Ed Wiget
> Senior Network Security Consultant
> RHP Studios
> "Keeping Your Data Safe!"
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