dhcp client acting strangely

[Sander Hoentjen]

On Sat, 2007-02-03 at 11:08 -0500, David Cantrell wrote:
> On Sat, 2007-02-03 at 16:41 +0100, Sander Hoentjen wrote:
> > I am not sure if this is a user error or not, but here it goes:
> > I just switched ISP's, and got a new modem/router. I plugged it in, and
> > it has a dhcp server that i wanted to use. It doesn't work for some
> > reason however. I then plugged in my old router, and internet worked
> > again. I tried the new one again, that didn't work again. Going back to
> > the old one now also failed. Setting the ip to a static address fixes
> > things.
> > Wireshark shows me that the routers indeed send a DHCPOFFER, but my
> > client doesn't seem to react to that.
> > Is this a bug somewhere or am I doing something stupid?
> 
> I don't think so.  This happened to me at FUDcon yesterday while working
> on the dhcp packages.  dhclient just completely stopped working.  What
> finally made it work again?
> 
> setenforce 0
> 
> But I'm not sure why this has never happened before.  Trying to get to
> the bottom of this.
> 
Humm..
# getenforce 
Permissive
So I am already running with selinux disabled

So it must be something different

Sander