Bug 10898

Summary: Redhat 6.1 pump causes eth0 lockup during boot
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Linux Reporter: Chris Green <cmg>
Component: pumpAssignee: Elliot Lee <sopwith>
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Version: 6.1CC: cmg
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Description Chris Green 2000-04-18 18:47:10 UTC 
When I setup redhat 6.1 on a system at work, I setup my eth0 "realtek" to
use dhcp.  Upon rebooting, I noticed it locked up, so I shut the system
down and removed the card.  Upon booting again, I noticed that the system
was using the pump program to pull the dhcp.  Well, at work were using a
windows98 system to deliver internet (laugh).  Through the internet
connectivity sharing that ms uses, it sends out a very weak dhcp signal, or
possibly modified version of dhcp.  So, no matter what I tryed, weather
bootp, dhcp, or entered the network information manually, it still locked
up.  How I worked around this:  I restarted, removed the ethernet card and
the configuration, I then did an rpm -e pump to remove it from the system.
I then installed dhcpcd from the cd.  After that, I rebooted and
reinstalled the ethernet card.  My system seen the card on boot, but
delayed the startup cause pump was not installed, after logging in as root,
I started dhcpcd and used the command "ifconfig" and noticed I was on the
network.  I tryed to ping a remote host on the internet, and was able to
ping without no problem.  I just thought, that maybe you should setup a way
to use pump or dhcpcd during the ethernet card setup.
Comment 1 Elliot Lee 2001-07-19 18:05:37 UTC 
Apologies for the unresponsiveness of the previous pump packager...

This old problem report should be solved in either 7.1 (which would have a newer
pump), or rawhide, which contains dhcpcd as a replacement for pump.