The DHCPCD program does not get installed properly. For the DHCPCD program to work properly, the directory /etc/dhcpc must exist. Without this directory, dhcpcd *will* operate, but will not be able to store it's cache or info files. Which will cause slight problems down the road when it needs to renew it's IP address (IE the machine is left on enough that the daemon is required to renew the ip address). Simply creating /etc/dhcpc solves this problem, and when you run dhcpcd it will place it's files in there correctly.
Fixed (by including /etc/dhcpc) in dhcpcd-1.3.17pl2-2. I also put a copy of dhcpcd-eth0.exe into the dhcpcd doc directory.
*** Bug 3132 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** I've been using, with RH 5.2, ipchains rules and scripts as written by Robert Zeigler: http://rlz.ne.mediaone.net/linux/faq/index3.html Unfortunately, under 6.0, the dhcpcd interface information file is no longer created, so ipchains rules use the IP address I had weeks ago and thus don't work. Why was this removed, or what has it been changed to? I don't see anything in the ipup script (besides running pump to manage the DHCP requests) to allow me to fix this, short of writing my own script to extract this information from output of pump. This seems like a bug to me, since getting this information from dhcpcd is critical for using ipchains. Please fix this. Thanks very much. -- Dave Dittrich dittrich.edu ------- Additional Comments From jbj 05/29/99 11:47 ------- I believe that mkdir /etc/dhcpc the info file may once again be created. If I'm wrong, then please reopen this bug. ------- Email Received From Dave Dittrich <dittrich.edu> 06/02/99 19:59 ------- ------- Email Received From Dave Dittrich <dittrich.edu> 06/06/99 20:52 -------