FC3 ->FC4 update DHCP problems
Gary Stainburn
gary.stainburn at ringways.co.uk
Fri Oct 28 08:58:43 UTC 2005
On Wednesday 12 October 2005 10:52 am, Gary Stainburn wrote:
> Hi folks.
>
> I've just upgraded my laptop from FC3 to FC4 and all seems fine (the
> isolinux boot failure was fun) apart from the DHCP client.
>
> When I boot up my laptop gets it's IP address/subnet okay but the
> default gateway, DNS and hostname arn't getting set any more.
>
> I've tried it at two sites, and therefore 2 different DHCP servers.
>
> I've done a 'yum update' and everything looks fine. Also, I can't
> see anything in /var/log/messages.
>
> Anyone got any ideas?
I'm still looking into this and have found the following in
/var/log/messages. I asume there's some discrepency between the
dhclient and the script using it. Anyone got any ideas what and where?
Oct 28 09:39:10 lcomp5 dhclient: Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client
V3.0.2-RedHat
Oct 28 09:39:10 lcomp5 dhclient: Copyright 2004 Internet Systems
Consortium.
Oct 28 09:39:10 lcomp5 dhclient: All rights reserved.
Oct 28 09:39:10 lcomp5 dhclient: For info, please visit
http://www.isc.org/products/DHCP
Oct 28 09:39:10 lcomp5 dhclient: Usage: dhclient [-1dqr] [-nwx] [-p
<port>] [-s server]
Oct 28 09:39:10 lcomp5 dhclient: [-cf config-file] [-lf
lease-file][-pf pid-file] [-e VAR=val]
Oct 28 09:39:10 lcomp5 dhclient: [-sf script-file]
[interface]
Oct 28 09:39:10 lcomp5 dhclient:
Oct 28 09:39:10 lcomp5 dhclient: If you did not get this software from
ftp.isc.org, please
Oct 28 09:39:10 lcomp5 dhclient: get the latest from ftp.isc.org and
install that before
Oct 28 09:39:10 lcomp5 dhclient: requesting help.
Oct 28 09:39:10 lcomp5 dhclient:
Oct 28 09:39:10 lcomp5 dhclient: If you did get this software from
ftp.isc.org and have not
Oct 28 09:39:10 lcomp5 dhclient: yet read the README, please read it
before requesting help.
Oct 28 09:39:10 lcomp5 dhclient: If you intend to request help from the
dhcp-server at isc.org
Oct 28 09:39:10 lcomp5 dhclient: mailing list, please read the section
on the README about
Oct 28 09:39:10 lcomp5 dhclient: submitting bug reports and requests for
help.
Oct 28 09:39:10 lcomp5 dhclient:
Oct 28 09:39:10 lcomp5 dhclient: Please do not under any circumstances
send requests for
Oct 28 09:39:10 lcomp5 dhclient: help directly to the authors of this
software - please
Oct 28 09:39:10 lcomp5 dhclient: send them to the appropriate mailing
list as described in
Oct 28 09:39:10 lcomp5 dhclient: the README file.
Oct 28 09:39:11 lcomp5 dhclient:
Oct 28 09:39:11 lcomp5 dhclient: exiting.
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