Your message dated Sat, 4 Mar 2006 22:34:56 +0100 with message-id <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> has caused the Debian Bug report #152760, regarding Ping to braodcast address; doesn't work to be marked as having been forwarded to the upstream software author(s) Edwin Groothuis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>.
(NB: If you are a system administrator and have no idea what I am talking about this indicates a serious mail system misconfiguration somewhere. Please contact me immediately.) Debian bug tracking system administrator (administrator, Debian Bugs database)
--- Begin Message ---Hi Edwin, a user has reported a bug with regards to broadcast addresses in dhcping. You may want to work on this. If you reply please copy the mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so it gets recorded properly in our bug tracking system. In addition, a typo has been found in the manpage which you may want to correct as well: --- - 2005-10-18 04:10:43.459404000 -0400 +++ /tmp/dhcping8.gz.11054 2005-10-18 04:10:43.000000000 -0400 @@ -220,7 +220,7 @@ Send the \s-1DHCP\s0 packet to this \s-1IP\s0 address. .Ip "\fB\-h\fR \fIclient-hardware-address\fR" 5 Use this hardware-address in the \s-1DHCP\s0 request. It can be up to -sixteen octets seperated by colons (i.e. 01:02:03:04) +sixteen octets separated by colons (i.e. 01:02:03:04) .Ip "\fB\-g\fR \fIgateway-\s-1IP\s0\-address\fR" 5 Use this \s-1IP\s0 address for the gateway \s-1IP\s0 address in the \s-1DHCP\s0 packet. This option is currently broken. Regards, Joey ----- Forwarded message from [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----- Date: 12 Jul 2002 15:27:22 -0000 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Ping to braodcast address; doesn't work Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Package: dhcping Version: 1.2-1 Sorry to be unappreciative, but this utility has more rough edges than most... You're welcome to tell me to stop complaining and just fix them myself. To answer the question "is the network's DHCP server up", the obvious thing to do is emulate a DHCP client, and ask for service from 255.255.255.255. But if you just run "dhcping -v" without specifying a server, it defaults to 0.0.0.0 (without printing any details of packets its sending, contradicting the manual: When running in very verbose mode, dhcping tries to dump all data of the send and received DHCP packets. It will first dump the packet in hex-format, then decodes the header and finally the options. This, not unsurprisingly, does nothing useful. If you explicitly specify a server of 255.255.255.255, it complains about getting a response from a specific address and claims that there was no answer. It seems to me that that should work, and be the default behaviour. Or am I misunderstanding the purpose of the program? It would be better not to have a default for the server address than a default of 0.0.0.0. (Oh, I just found the magic "very verbose" flag: -V. Man page needs updating, or perhaps the conventional -vv (I tried up to -v -v -v -v -v -v) should be supported.) Thanks for your time! ----- End forwarded message ----- -- The MS-DOS filesystem is nice for removable media. -- H. Peter Anvin Please always Cc to me when replying to me on the lists.
--- End Message ---
