On Sun, 6 Feb 2000, Benjamin Scott wrote:
> On Sun, 6 Feb 2000, Rick Petree wrote:
> > Ben and Todd hacked away at it, but for some reason neither RH6.1 nor
> > Mandrake6.1 would not pick up their IP address from the DHCP server.
>
> Actually, they would get their configuration from the server, including the
> IP, and bring up the interface so traffic could pass. However, after that had
> been done, Red Hat's "pump" DHCP client promptly hung, apparently in an
> endless loop (100% CPU use). I'll be working on tracking down the cause of
> this.
I've spent countless hours with pump, I would say go back to using the
dhcpcd client, not sure if it's on 6.1 but it should be around for
earlier version.
> > All the computers in the school use the two DHCP servers and if Linux
> > keeps choking on the DHCP we can just install static address on the all.
>
> I'm fairly confident we can get this working. Besides, it would look rather
> bad to potential future Linux users if we can't even get our own LAN up and
> running....
I was down in NYC last week for LinuxWorldExpo, the hotel had "fast"
internet service through a 10-base-T jack in the room, I don't know what
the DHCP server was (which OS etc...) but I spent several hours trying to
use pump and got nowhere. I had dhcpcd up and running in about 2 minutes.
--rdp
Rich Payne
[EMAIL PROTECTED] www.alphalinux.org
