Dear Sir/Ms, As you are hopefully aware, the dhclient-2.2.x program used by the stable Woody installer is badly broken in that it not properly respond (invalid DHCPREQUEST packet[?] receives DHCPNAK) to the DHCP address offered (DHCPOFFER response to DHCPDISCOVER) if the address has not been previously released -- which is likely to happen when adding new machines to an existing network (i.e. virgin addresses being offered). This is documented at http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=73369 and is a real PITA. I'm fairly disappointed this issue hasn't be corrected since it is exactly the wrong kind of bug to have in an installer, is a bug fix and hence appropriate to a stable release branch, and makes Debian look bad. Replacing dhclient with dhcpcd is reportedly the easy fix, assuming the bug in dhclient hasn't been fixed in a later version. Recompiling /sbin/dbootstrap could be avoided by making /sbin/dhclient-2.2.x a script wrapper around the dhcpcd call and needed argument conversion and logic changes. I am willing to try to hack up a fix to this problem in my copious (ha ha) spare time, if lack of interested coders is the problem. Thank you.
Sincerely, Max Bell [EMAIL PROTECTED]
