Description of problem: When using dhclient on certain WiMAX networks, it fails to set up local and default routes properly. The issue is a combination of: 1 - the network DHCP server reports a default route via a gateway that is not on the local network of the wimax device 2 - the wimax device has no ARP support (it being a pure P2P link) 3 - /sbin/dhclient-script uses ARPING to determine if the gateway host is reachable or not in is_router_reachable(). When invoked, dhclient-script, in is_router_reachable, determines it is in a kind of situation 1, but then, because of 2 and 3, it fails to determine that it can actually reach the router. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 4.1.0-23.fc11 How reproducible: Straightforward Steps to Reproduce: 1.Try to connect to a network with said route configuration 2.Connect WiMAX, run dhclient through NM or manually 3.See it fail (check "network is unreachable" message in /var/log/messages) Actual results: Route table not setup properly with default route Expected results: dhclient-script recognizes the router as reachable and sets up default route. Additional info: The fix could be quite simple, by doing either of: a. replace usage of arping in is_router_reachable() by ping (this is a drop in, since the command line arguments seem to be the same) -- this might not really work, so a variation is: b. in is_router_reachable(), setup the ip route add ${router}/32 dev ${interface} # error handling if ping -f -q -I ${interface} -w2 ${router}; then unreachable=0 else unreachable=1 logmessage "DHCP router ${router} is unreachable on DHCP subnet ${mysubnet} router subnet ${routersubnet}" ip route del ${router}/32 dev ${interface} fi
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Fixed in dhcp-4.2.0-11.fc14, sorry for the huge delay. http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/gitweb/?p=dhcp.git;a=commitdiff;h=db1d0eda080ed2ccedb700eba9b7bb60c905e1ca
Thank you -- I won't be able to verify (can't upgrade my machine as of now), but the same fix you applied is the one I tried back in the day.
dhcp-4.2.0-12.fc14 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 14. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/dhcp-4.2.0-12.fc14
dhcp-4.2.0-12.fc14 has been pushed to the Fedora 14 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report. If you want to test the update, you can install it with su -c 'yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update dhcp'. You can provide feedback for this update here: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/dhcp-4.2.0-12.fc14
dhcp-4.2.0-12.fc14 has been pushed to the Fedora 14 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.