problems with dhclient after upgrade to sarge

From: David Ballantyne (ballanty_at_cita.utoronto.ca)
Date: 04/21/04

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    Hi,

    Last night I upgraded my woody system to Sarge, and my dhclient broke.
    Before the upgrade I was using the package that came with woody
    (dhcp3-client 3.0+3.0.1rc9-2.2) and it worked 'out of the box'. That is,
    all I had to do was type /sbin/dhclient and I was fine. After the upgrade,
    dhcp3-client 3.0+3.0.1rc13-1 was installed, and nothing was working.

    The first problem encountered following the upgrade was, after typing
    /sbin/dhclient as root, I got messages such as 'receive_packet Network is
    down' and 'send packet: network is down', and of course it didn't
    configure. After some Google searches (on another computer), it looked
    like the problem was that the network was not being brought up:
    once I typed 'ifconfig eth0 up' and re-ran /sbin/dhclient it looked like
    it worked.

    But it didn't. Although the messages dhclient is putting to the screen
    look like normal messages (i.e., it gets bound to an address and a renewal
    time from the server) I can't connect to the internet. If a try to ssh
    into a machine I get a 'Temporary failure in name resolution' error.
    Furthmore, if I run 'ifconfig' it lists eth0 and lo as normal, but there
    is no internet address assigned to eth0 even though it looks like dhclient
    was sent one. It does say 'UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST', but no 'inet
    addr'.

    I'm at a loss for ideas right now. As I said earlier, it worked trivially
    under woody, so I know it is not a problem with any of the kernel
    configurations or drivers (as those were not updated in my transition to
    Sarge). I would appreciate any help or guidance on this matter.

    Please respond directly to me, as I am not subscribed to the mailing
    lists.

    Thanks in advance,

    David

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