From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Mon, 8 Jan 2001 04:06:49 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 8 Jan 2001 04:06:38 -0500 Received: from horus.its.uow.edu.au ([130.130.68.25]:10406 "EHLO horus.its.uow.edu.au") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Mon, 8 Jan 2001 04:06:32 -0500 Message-ID: <3A598474.3A69C684@uow.edu.au> Date: Mon, 08 Jan 2001 20:12:20 +1100 From: Andrew Morton X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.4.0-test8 i586) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: timw@splhi.com CC: Christian Loth , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: DHCP Problems with 3com 3c905C Tornado In-Reply-To: <20010104123139.A15097@gidayu.max.uni-duisburg.de> <3A58725F.A1E3CD37@uow.edu.au>, <3A58725F.A1E3CD37@uow.edu.au>; from andrewm@uow.edu.au on Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 12:42:55AM +1100 <20010107230226.A2074@scutter.internal.splhi.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Tim Wright wrote: > > Sounds somewhat familiar. The pump that came with RedHat 6.2 never worked > correctly at work, but dhcpcd worked just fine (we don't have static IP > addresses, but there are fewer machines than there are addresses in the pool, > so effectively, we do :-). The odd thing is that I (mis?)understood in this > case that dhcpcd was not working either (unless I'm confusing this with a > different thread). Suffice to say that newer versions of pump seem to work > much better, at least for me. No, you're not confused. Someone did mention that dhcpcd was playing up. Obviously, something changed between 2.2.14 and more current kernels which broke pump. I don't believe it's a driver change because it also affects the 3c90x driver. I don't have a theory as to why this affects the 3com NICs though. But I'm assuming that whatever broke pump also broke dhcpcd. I note that with 3c59x in 2.4.0, pump-0.7.3 basically freezes up. It spits out a single bootp packet then goes to lunch. I got bored waiting after ten minutes. So an upgrade is definitely needed. - - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/