[lug] DHCP whining...

Alan Robertson alanr at suse.com
Wed Apr 12 07:23:46 MDT 2000


Ralf Mattes wrote:
> 
> [...]
> 
> > >
> > > DHCP needs to send out his request to 255.255.255.255 (as the
> > > message tells you). Is this address reachable via eth0 (you didn't
> > > show us the routing). You need at least a host route to this
> > > address.
> > >
> > >  Ralf
> >
> > I don't remember any routes like that at that time, but dhcp *has to* to
> > do it's magic on an interface basis, so it shouldn't *need* a route.
> > And, if that were the problem wouldn't it give "no route to host"?
> 
> Well, dhcp is somehow 'between' the layers. I remember this
> route from the docs for dhcpd. AFAIK it's not possible to
> send (and receive) pakets unless an interface is configured
> (correct me if i'm wrong). I had the same problem recently
> (during the GNOME conference in Paris); my 'quick hack'
> solution was to give my eth0 a temporary ip-address and then
> run 'dhclient' -- pretty ugly but it worked.
> 
> > sudo /sbin/route add -host 255.255.255.255 eth0
> > SIOCADDRT: No such device
> >
> > This is what happens when I tried this...
> 
> Works for me :-/ What Kernel are you running?
> 


Linux kathyamy 2.2.13 #1 Mon Nov 8 15:37:25 CET 1999 i686 unknown  


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