dhcp3-client does not bring up interface

From: Stefan Bellon (sbellon_at_sbellon.de)
Date: 11/30/03

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Date: Sun, 30 Nov 2003 21:06:54 +0100

    Hi!

    Back in July, when version 3.0+3.0.1rc11-5 of the dhcp3-client package
    came out, I noticed that my notebook no longer worked together with the
    DHCP server. I investigated a bit, but at that time it was easier for
    me to revert back to version 3.0+3.0.1rc11-4 and wait till somebody
    else reports the problem and the problem gets fixed. This was an ill
    idea as the problem exists till today. Ok, lesson learnt, here we go.

    If I do

    # dhclient eth0

    that results amongst other (usual) messages in

    receive_packet failed on eth0: Network is down

    and

    send_packet: Network is down

    If I first do:

    # ifconfig eth0 up

    and then

    # dhclient eth0

    it works. The file /etc/network/interfaces contains the lines

    auto eth0
    iface eth0 inet dhcp

    As mentioned above, with version 3.0+3.0.1rc11-4 it worked. To me, it
    looks like dhclient previously did the "ifconfig eth0 up" itself, but
    no expects somebody else to do it, but nobody does.

    Any ideas? 

    -- 
Stefan Bellon
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