found 339711 2.0pl5-19.3 thanks Sam, thanks for working on this.
I'm afraid the NMU has not fixed the problem on sparc though. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ dpkg -l dhcp-client Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold | Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed |/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad) ||/ Name Version Description +++-=================-=================-================================================== ii dhcp-client 2.0pl5-19.3 DHCP Client $ sudo dhclient Internet Software Consortium DHCP Client 2.0pl5 Copyright 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999 The Internet Software Consortium. All rights reserved. Please contribute if you find this software useful. For info, please visit http://www.isc.org/dhcp-contrib.html sit0: unknown hardware address type 776 sit0: unknown hardware address type 776 Listening on LPF/sit0/<null> Sending on LPF/sit0/<null> Listening on LPF/lo/<null> Sending on LPF/lo/<null> Listening on LPF/eth0/08:00:20:9c:14:f5 Sending on LPF/eth0/08:00:20:9c:14:f5 Sending on Socket/fallback/fallback-net DHCPDISCOVER on sit0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 3 DHCPDISCOVER on lo to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 5 DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 8 receive_packet failed on eth0: Network is down Bus error This while working in an ssh session from another system, so the network obviously is anything but down :-)
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