[dhcp-agent-users] Re: bug report. file number 002

[Thamer Al-H. <tm...@wh...>]

On Wed, 2 Jul 2003, Jon Nistor wrote:

>
> [root@koala:/opt/dhcp/sbin]: ./dhcp-client -i de0 -c
> dhcp-client :           (C) 2002 Thamer Al-Harbash <tm...@wh...>
> dhcp-client :           See LICENSE file for details.
> dhcp-client :
> [root@koala:/opt/dhcp/sbin]: ifconfig -a
> de0: flags=8802<BROADCAST,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
>         inet 0.0.0.0 netmask 0xffffff80 broadcast 63.139.147.255
>         ether 00:c0:f0:4a:71:a6
>         media: Ethernet 10baseT/UTP <full-duplex>
>         status: active
>
> then when I run dhcp-client again to get an ip, it doesn't work because
> the broadcast is wrong(?).

Looks like dnet isn't clearing the interface as it should on
FreeBSD. This is probably my fault for not passing the incorrect
values. Linux and BSD both seem to have very different semantics
when it comes to interface handling.

Thanks. I'll add this to the ERRATA, and try to get a patch out
tonight or tommorow.

-- 
Thamer Al-Harbash