From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Charles Duffy Subject: kvm-71 e1000 etherboot failure reading DHCP responses Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2008 13:55:14 -0500 Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: kvm@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:56722 "EHLO ciao.gmane.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751189AbYGUSzg (ORCPT ); Mon, 21 Jul 2008 14:55:36 -0400 Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1KL0Xk-00027b-5D for kvm@vger.kernel.org; Mon, 21 Jul 2008 18:55:32 +0000 Received: from rrcs-71-41-149-67.sw.biz.rr.com ([71.41.149.67]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 21 Jul 2008 18:55:32 +0000 Received: from Charles_Duffy by rrcs-71-41-149-67.sw.biz.rr.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 21 Jul 2008 18:55:32 +0000 Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Per subject. Etherboot comes up but is unable to get an IP address, despite perfectly valid-looking incoming responses. Once booted, Linux has no problem with DHCP. Switching to the rtl8139 (while changing nothing else) works around the issue.