Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 20161
pump/dhcpcd -> Wingate v3.05 incompatabilty
Last modified: 2007-04-18 12:29:38 EDT
Hi Folks I run rh7.0 as part of a network connected to the outside world via a server running Wingate v.305( on win95). I noticed that there was a -lot- of continuous network activity. Using a network monitor I found that pump was initially requesting an ip lease time of 12 hours -fine, however Wingate was overriding this with a 1 second lease time on the DHCP offer. then pump seems to continuously do a dchcp request every 10ms. - with ip lease time set to 1 second. In this state pump consumes about 26 % of cpu time according to top & when shutting the pc down it hangs as eth0 is closed. dhcpcd behaves the same except will allow liniux to shut down correctly. Looking at a dhcp request from a win95 machine, i noticed that win95 does not request a lease time, - wingate then sends a valid lease time of 30 days. This is obviously a wingate problem but it would be nice if there was an option to disable ip least time requests in pump & dhcpcd. Thanks Simon Eatough
Apologies for the unresponsiveness of the previous pump packager... Changing standards-compliant behaviour to accomodate broken behaviour might indeed fix this specific bug, but it would be likely to cause other problems in the long run.