On Fri, Jun 03, 2005 at 08:56:07AM +0200, Nicolas Kreft wrote: > Hi List! > > > Is it for a special reason that the default dhcp-client > in sarge is ancient (version 2.0pl5)? > > This client does not follow the RFC correctly. When > it does a dhcpdiscover and the interface has been > previously configured with some ip address it is still > using that ip for the dhcpdiscover. This causes the > dhcp server (3.0.2) on my network to abandon that ip address. > > The 3.x series has been released nearly 4 years ago, > why not make it the default?
I had the same problem with dhclient. I was mounting root over NFS and then using DHCP to fill out resolv.conf. The 'problem' was that the deconfiguring of the interface was happening in a script before dhclient did it's magic. I built pump to solve the problem. IIRC, the issue isn't fixed in newer versions of dhclient, but others may know for sure. Cheers. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]