From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-GB; rv:1.6a) Gecko/20031018 Description of problem: I have run twelve machines on a network all requesting leases and they will install okay using dhcp; however following installation and during boot dhcpcd will fail stating that there is no link present. (This is during first and subsequent boots). Using netconfig to set a stating IP address following by a service network restart will bring up the interface. I have also experienced this on a totally separate network on an upgrade from RH9 through to RHEL3. It makes no difference whether the lease is open or assigned to a particular mac address. I also tried using the previous RH9 kernel on the upgraded machine with no change in results. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): dhcpcd-1.3.18pl8-13 How reproducible: Sometimes Steps to Reproduce: 1.Run netconfig, choose dhcp and reboot 2. The machine will fail to pick up a lease in approximately 70% of events. 3.setting a static address will reverse this behaviour. Actual Results: The machine fails to have an ip address assigned to eth0 Expected Results: The server should pick up the IP address assigned. Additional info:
Does not happen with dhclient (dhcp-3.0.1).
An advisory has been issued which should help the problem described in this bug report. This report is therefore being closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information on the solution and/or where to find the updated files, please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report if the solution does not work for you. http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2004-566.html