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Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2008 16:03:52 -0800
From: Andrew Sharp <andy.sharp@onstor.com>
To: "Sripal Surendiran (HCL)" <sripal.surendiran@onstor.com>
Subject: Re: Need a help on dhcp issue
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On Tue, 29 Jan 2008 06:38:39 -0800 "Sripal Surendiran (HCL)"
<sripal.surendiran@onstor.com> wrote:

> Hi Andy,
>  
> I am working on Cougar FTI and facing some issue with running DHCP
> client in the Bobcat linux filer ( I don't have cougar system :-( ). 
> Following error message got displayed, when DHCP client tried to
> contact the DHCP server. 
> webui8:~# /etc/init.d/networking start
> Configuring network interfaces...Internet Systems Consortium DHCP
> Client V3.0.4 Copyright 2004-2006 Internet Systems Consortium.
> All rights reserved.
> For info, please visit http://www.isc.org/sw/dhcp/
> bp0: unknown hardware address type 65535

Hi Sripal,

The dhclient man page says it should ignore interfaces not specified in
the dhclient.conf file.  However, I don't know exactly how it is being
invoked by ifup which I assume is what is starting it.  Possibly it is
invoking it with some command line options that is overriding this.
Really it should be invoking it with -i intF for the interface it is
trying to configure.  You can download the source for dhclient with the
command "apt-get source dhcp3" and similar for ifup: "apt-get source
ifupdown" and see what they do.

I'll take a look in the kernel to see if there's anything that can be
done there.  I know dhclient skips non-broadcast interfaces, but for
some reason bp0 is set as broadcast capable.

> Filer hangs after the above message. Even my console is not
> responding. I have to hard reboot the filer. 
> Details of my configuration file
>  
> 1. /etc/network/interfaces
>  
> # The loopback network interface
> auto lo
> iface lo inet loopback
> 
> # The primary network interface
> auto eth0
> iface eth0 inet dhcp
> #  address 10.25.0.8
> #  netmask 255.255.0.0
> #  gateway 10.25.0.1
> 
> 2. /etc/dhcp3/dhclient.conf
> 
> timeout 60;
> retry 60;
> reboot 10;
> select-timeout 5;
> initial-interval 2;
> 
> 
> interface "eth0" {
>         send dhcp-client-identifier 0:7:34:1:f0:0;
>         send dhcp-lease-time  -1;
>         request subnet-mask, routers,
> domain-name,domain-name-servers, host-name, ntp-servers; require
> host-name; script "/sbin/dhclient-script";
> }
> 
> alias {
>         interface "eth0";
>         fixed-address 172.18.250.250;
>         option subnet-mask 255.255.0.0;
> }
> 
> Whether I am missing something? Any help on this regards will be
> grateful.
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> Sripal.
> 
> ________________________________
> 
> From: Brian DeForest
> Sent: Fri 1/18/2008 6:58 AM
> To: Sudharsan Srinivasan-TLS,Chennai; Sripal Surendiran (HCL)
> Cc: Charissa Willard
> Subject: Cougar FTI
> 
> 
> 
> There have been some discussions about who should own the Cougar FTI
> port/development.  Since this was implemented in R98, after the
> Cougar porting was started, it wasn't really clear whether the
> offshore team or Cougar team should own this.  After some
> discussions, it was decided that the offshore team would be the right
> team to implement this given your familiarity with the R98 work.  
> 
> Currently the Cougar FTI is based on the "old" pre-R98 FTI so the
> porting/development of Cougar (R98-based) FTI is not gating any
> developers.  Also this is not a requirement for the upcoming Cougar
> beta in February.  
> 
> We'll need a schedule for the work.  Tim requested this by Monday if
> possible, however let me know if that's feasible, or an alternative
> date for a schedule.  Andy Sharp is the primary Linux technical
> contact, and feel free to consult with Charissa (or I) as needed also.
> 
> Thanks.
> Brian 
> 
