Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 55085
dhcp client and token ring
Last modified: 2008-05-01 11:38:01 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.75 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.17-21mdk i686) Description of problem: The message "dhcpStart: interface tr0 is not Ethernet or 802.2 Token Ring" appears in /var/log/messages and the dhcp client does not work with the token ring card. The card is using the "olympic" driver. When using a static IP, all is fine so it looks like a problem with dhdpcd. This worked fine with this card using Redhat 7.1 although I cannot be sure dhcpcd was being used then (maybe pump was the dafault??) lspci describes the card as "Token ring network controller: IBM 16/4 Token ring UTP/STP controller (rev 05)" Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install RH7.2 on a machine with an IBM 16/4 Token Ring card 2. Attempt to set up the card to use dhcp 3. Watch it fail and see /var/log/messages for the reason. Actual Results: The interface tr0 was unavailable because it didn't know what IP address to use Expected Results: If should have retrieved the IP and other info form the dhcp server. Additional info:
pump was the default in 7.1.
I had a similar problem using dhcpcd on a token-ring network. In my case my network card is an IBM Turbo 16/4 Token-Ring PC Card 2. Under RedHat 7.1 client dhcp (ie pump) worked out of the box; after installing Red Hat 7.2 client dhcp (ie dhcpcd) wouldn't work at all. Uninstalling dhcpcd and installing pump (pump is on the 2nd cd) fixes the problem. This is most likely the case for many or most token-ring users. This issue should probably be listed in the install FAQ.
Hi, This is the patch included with the source code for the dhcpcd program in the RH7.2 source rpm. I believe the line: + && ifr.ifr_hwaddr.sa_family != ARPHRD_IEEE802) should be: + && ifr.ifr_hwaddr.sa_family != ARPHRD_IEEE802_TR) This makes the dhcpcd program recognize the TR card, however, in all my tests, dhcpcd still did not configure the TR cards. "pump" from RH7.1 does work, however, so there is probably a bigger problem with dhcpcd. dhcpcd-1.3.17-tr.patch from RH7.2-CD3/SRPMS/dhcpcd-1.3.18pl8-13.src.rpm: --- dhcpcd-1.3.17-pl5/client.c.tr Wed Jun 2 07:08:58 1999 +++ dhcpcd-1.3.17-pl5/client.c Wed Jun 2 07:11:44 1999 @@ -678,9 +678,10 @@ syslog(LOG_ERR,"dhcpStart: ioctl SIOCGIFHWADDR: %m\n"); exit(1); } - if ( ifr.ifr_hwaddr.sa_family != ARPHRD_ETHER ) + if ( ifr.ifr_hwaddr.sa_family != ARPHRD_ETHER + && ifr.ifr_hwaddr.sa_family != ARPHRD_IEEE802) { - syslog(LOG_ERR,"dhcpStart: interface %s is not Ethernet\n",ifr.ifr_name); + syslog(LOG_ERR,"dhcpStart: interface %s is not Ethernet or 802.2 Token Ring\n", ifr.ifr_name); exit(1); } if ( setsockopt(dhcpSocket,SOL_SOCKET,SO_BROADCAST,&o,sizeof(o)) == -1 )
I put a modified version of this patch in dhcpcd-1.3.21pl2-1 for rawhide, thanks.