On Wed, 2006-11-01 at 23:18 -0800, Norm Matloff wrote: ... > and get an error message something like "eth0: no IPv6 router present." > I just tried running dhclient by hand under Mandriva, and got a message > "eth0: unknown hardware address type 24." ...
Hi Norm, For the IPv6 error, you might try disabling IPv6 support in the kernel. I found this article that describes how the code might not be giving IPv4 a fair chance: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions//showthread.php?t=145028 That would be consistant with not seeing the problem on earlier versions - maybe IPv6 wasn't there. I think the Mandriva distribution suffers from old DHCP code - which keeps it from reaching the IPv6 error. Here's why: I did a Google code search ( http://www.google.com/codesearch ) for your error message, and it is coming from the dhcp client. In that code, it reads a sockaddr struct from a network response from your Powerline modem/adapter/whatever. The "unknown hardware address type" is 24, which is the sockaddr.sa_family value. >From /usr/include/linux/socket.h struct sockaddr { sa_family_t sa_family; /* address family, AF_xxx */ char sa_data[14]; /* 14 bytes of protocol address */ }; The #defines that the dhcp code is using are defined in /usr/include/linux/if_arp.h, my version of which has this: #define ARPHRD_IEEE1394 24 /* IEEE 1394 IPv4 - RFC 2734 */ If you want to go with Mandriva, I'd look for a newer version of the DHCP client. - Harold Lee _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
