NetworkManager and DHCP

[Radek Vokál]

On Wed, 2006-03-15 at 13:36 -0800, Tod Merley wrote:
> Hi Radek Vokal!
>  
> NetworkManager is a "work in process" as they tell.  You sound like
> you may be well equiped to help this work.
>  
> Please consider:
>  
> http://www.gnome.org/projects/NetworkManager/
>  
> And especially joining the list at:
>  
> http://www.gnome.org/projects/NetworkManager/developers/
>  
> Your info could be helpful to them and they more able to help you.
>  
> Good Hunting!
>  
> Tod

Bug opened, patch proposed. The timeout value for DHCP query was too
short. 

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=185611



> 
>  
> On 3/15/06, Radek Vokál <radekvokal at gmail.com> wrote: 
>         Hi, I can't setup NetworkManager to work properly with my
>         DHCP. After
>         service NetworkManager start it sets link local IP address to
>         eth0 
>         interface (such as 169.254.x.x), but it should call dhcpclient
>         and get
>         the IP from the server. According to Ethereal capture
>         NetworkManager
>         doesn't seem to send DHCP Offer to server as it should. The
>         eth0
>         interface has the following configuration 
>         
>         # cat ifcfg-LAN
>         DEVICE=eth0
>         BOOTPROTO=dhcp
>         ONBOOT=yes
>         TYPE=Ethernet
>         #NETMASK=255.255.255.0
>         #IPADDR=10.76.128.61
>         USERCTL=yes 
>         PEERDNS=yes
>         #GATEWAY=10.76.128.1
>         HWADDR=00:c0:9f:cf:60:34
>         
>         
>         and calling ifup eth0 correctly sets the IP up (as well as
>         service
>         network start)
>         
>         NetworkManager-0.5.1-1.FC4.4 
>         
>         Am I missing some configuration file or issue?
>         --
>         Radek Vokál <radekvokal at gmail.com>
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