Description of problem: Update of dhclient from dhclient-4.1.0p1-12.fc12.x86_64 to dhclient-4.1.1-9.fc12.x86_64 causes the default MTU of a bridge device to be set to 576 rather than 1500 as it was previously. This in turn prevents virtual machines that are connected to the bridge device from functioning properly (e.g. web pages will not load, although simple ping will work fine -- workaround is to force MTU in virtual machines to 576 also). Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): dhclient-4.1.1-9.fc12.x86_64 How reproducible: 100% Steps to Reproduce: 1. Set up bridged networking with the following scripts: ifcfg.br0 -------------- DEVICE=br0 TYPE=Bridge BOOTPROTO=dhcp ONBOOT=yes DELAY=0 ifcfg-eth0 -------------- DEVICE=eth0 TYPE=Ethernet HWADDR=xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx ONBOOT=yes BRIDGE=br0 2. verify you have dhclient-4.1.1-9.fc12.x86_64 3. ensure NetworkManager is stopped 4. /etc/init.d/network restart 5. check with ifconfig, see br0 MTU=576 6. yum downgrade dhclient dhclient-4.1.0p1-12.fc12.x86_64 7. /etc/init.d/network restart 8. check with ifconfig, see br0 MTU=1500 Actual results: br0 MTU is 576 upon start up or network restart Expected results: br0 MTU is 1500 upon start up or network restart Additional info:
Hi Joe, thanks for the report. this is caused by fixing Bug #566873. dhclient-4.1.1-9.fc12 now requests interface-mtu (specifies the MTU to use on this interface) option from server by default. Server sends only options which it has configured to send and which the client requests. It means that your dhcp server is configured to send interface-mtu option (with value 576). You discovered it with dhclient-4.1.1-9.fc12, because from this version the client is prepared to accept it. If you don't want your client to request interface-mtu, you have to over-ride the list of default requested options. It means put the following line into /etc/dhcp/dhclient.conf: request subnet-mask, broadcast-address, time-offset, routers, domain-name, domain-name-servers, host-name, nis-domain, nis-servers, ntp-servers; I'm not sure how to proceed this bug. I was looking into Debian (testing) and found that the default dhclient is also requesting interface-mtu. The only difference is that in Fedora we do it in dhclient code (we don't have default dhclient.conf) and in Debian it is done via 'request' statement in default dhclient.conf
Perhaps Fedora should consider a default dhclient.conf and move the interface-mtu request there so it's easier for people to turn off?
Thanks -- I can confirm the 'request' statement in dhclient.conf fixes the issue for me. I agree with Derek -- I think a default dhclient.conf with a request statement would be a good idea. For example, if that had been the case I would have figured this out much more quickly when I grepped for mtu in /etc.
I did a little searching and found this: http://mathema.tician.de/node/409 and especially this http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=513616 The patch http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?msg=5;filename=ignore-below-576.diff;att=1;bug=513616 and explanation seems reasonable to me.
dhcp-4.1.1-11.fc12 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 12. http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/dhcp-4.1.1-11.fc12
4.1.1-11.fc12 works for me -- thanks!
dhcp-4.1.1-11.fc12 has been pushed to the Fedora 12 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: http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/dhcp-4.1.1-11.fc12
dhcp-4.1.1-12.fc12 has been pushed to the Fedora 12 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: http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/dhcp-4.1.1-12.fc12
dhcp-4.1.1-13.fc12 has been pushed to the Fedora 12 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: http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/dhcp-4.1.1-13.fc12
dhcp-4.1.1-13.fc12 has been pushed to the Fedora 12 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.