dhclient-3.0.2-26.FC4 broken ?

[Sebastian Kloska]

 thanks... found out it has been reported yesterday. See:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=176270

Cheers

Sebastian

Scot L. Harris wrote:

>On Wed, 2005-12-21 at 09:20, Sebastian Kloska wrote:
>  
>
>>Hi List,
>>
>>Since the latest update I do not get a default gateway via dhcp
>>in our companies network. Found out that dhclient-script
>>in dhclient-3.0.2-26.FC4 rejects to set our default route.
>>10.0.255.254
>>    
>>
>
>  
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>>The add_default_gateway function is never called whenever there is a 255 
>>within the ip
>>of the default route as reported by the DHCP server, which is the case 
>>in our companies
>>network.
>>Is this a bug or is there a convention which forbits the *255*  gateway 
>>address ?
>>    
>>
>
>That is a bug.  It needs to be reported via bugzilla so it will get
>fixed.  You have a valid IP address and it should be used.  The check
>they are making is invalid.  If they are trying to prevent the broadcast
>address from being used then they need to check the subnet mask and
>generate the broadcast from that information, not make assumptions as
>they are doing now.
>
>  
>


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