From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Gustavo Zacarias Date: Thu, 7 Jan 2016 16:11:26 -0300 Subject: [Buildroot] ifupdown-0.8.2 / dhcp-4.1-ESV-R12 incompatibility In-Reply-To: <20160106142628.GA3891@dkarchlinux64.currentcomm.com> References: <20160106142628.GA3891@dkarchlinux64.currentcomm.com> Message-ID: <568EB85E.3090501@zacarias.com.ar> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net On 06/01/16 11:26, rdkehn at yahoo.com wrote: > Hi All, > > I'm using SYSVINIT and get the following at startup from S40network: > > --8<--- > Starting network... > Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client 4.1-ESV-R12 > Copyright 2004-2015 Internet Systems Consortium. > All rights reserved. > For info, please visit https://www.isc.org/software/dhcp/ > Usage: dhclient [-4|-6] [-SNTP1dvrx] [-nw] [-p ] > [-s server-addr] [-cf config-file] [-lf lease-file] > [-pf pid-file] [--no-pid] [-e VAR=val] > [-sf script-file] [interface] > > If you did not get this software from ftp.isc.org, please > get the latest from ftp.isc.org and install that before > requesting help. > > If you did get this software from ftp.isc.org and have not > yet read the README, please read it before requesting help. > If you intend to request help from the dhcp-bugs at isc.org > mailing list, please read the section on the README about > submitting bug reports and requests for help. > > Please do not under any circumstances send requests for > help directly to the authors of this software - please > send them to the appropriate mailing list as described in > the README file. > > exiting. > Failed to bring up eth0. > --8<--- > > Looking into it, ifupdown-0.8.2 calls dhclient with -I and -df > options; these options are not supported by dhclient. The previous > version of ifupdown, 0.7.49, worked with dhcp-4.1-ESV-R12. Has > anyone else noticed this? > > It appears that dhcp-4.3.3 supports the -I and -df options used by > ifupdown-0.8.2. Cross-compiling dhcp-4.3.3 will be more complicated > since there is now a bind tar-ball embedded into the dhcp source. Is > anyone else attempting to add dhcp-4.3.3 to Buildroot? > > Thanks and Regards, > ...doug Hi Doug. I've bumped ifupdown recently, so i guess i'm guilty since i didn't try that alternative. That being said: you shouldn't use ISC dhcp if you can avoid it, much less for just a client. Try dhcpcd, upstream is responsive, it's better (IMO of course) and it's smaller. Regards.