From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <3B703ADA.9ADAFBAD@carts.com> Date: Tue, 07 Aug 2001 12:00:43 -0700 From: Kevin Fry MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linuxppc emb3dd3d list Subject: Strange bootpd behavior (server side) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-linuxppc-embedded@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: I'm having a small problem with our redhat 6.2 bootp server and maybe yous guys can shed some light on it for me. The problem is that whenever our DSL internet connection is down(which is too much.. I wish cable was available!), the bootpd stops responding to requests.. I can see the requests with tcpdump, but no replys. and when the internet is up sometimes is takes a little bit for the bootpd to respond to requests. I think it's doing DNS resolution and if it can't find a DNS server when the net's down, it just stops working. Does linux automatically do name resolution on every address it gets? If so can i turn this off? Our network is behind a DSL modem/router (Flowpoint 2200) acting as gateway(192.168.254.254), and we have 3 switches after that. A lot of the time the router is finicky with linux even when everything is working.. I know this is a bit off topic, but ANY suggestions are very welcome. Here's my routing table.. Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface 192.168.254.13 * 255.255.255.255 UH 0 0 0 eth0 192.168.254.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth0 127.0.0.0 * 255.0.0.0 U 0 0 0 lo default 192.168.254.254 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 eth0 Thanks! Kevin Fry ** Sent via the linuxppc-embedded mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/