Bug 111130 - dhcpcd frequently fails stating no link present
Summary: dhcpcd frequently fails stating no link present
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3
Classification: Red Hat
Component: dhcpcd
Version: 3.0
Hardware: i686
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Jason Vas Dias
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Reported: 2003-11-28 00:09 UTC by Xander D Harkness
Modified: 2016-06-07 22:44 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2004-08-04 22:46:41 UTC
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Red Hat Product Errata RHBA-2004:566 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Updated dhcp and dhclient packages 2005-05-26 04:00:00 UTC

Description Xander D Harkness 2003-11-28 00:09:27 UTC
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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:

Comment 1 Jason Vas Dias 2004-08-04 22:46:41 UTC
Does not happen with dhclient (dhcp-3.0.1).

Comment 2 John Flanagan 2004-12-21 19:42:08 UTC
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



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