Re: NM ignoring DHCP server

[Rene Rask <rene grain dk>]

> > Out of curiosity, what AP vendor is shipping hardware that responds to
> > DHCP on the wrong source port?  That's the critical piece of data you
> > seem to have left out.

Last was a cisco 678 router, but read below before making any decisions.
Not a DHCP problem after all it seems.

> 
> Actually, that message is a bit misleading.  There's no way that I know of to 
> tell the kernel we only want packets from port X at the level we're working at, 
> so the code actually receives copies of _all_ incoming packets.  The message is 
> just saying that it's discarding the packet because its not a DHCP packet.
> 
> Do you ever see a message other than that?

I've attached a log snippet with the messages.
But it seems I misunderstood the messages. Maybe you should consider
altering these log statements to be more specific about the packets not
being DHCP packets or omit them all together?

> The alternative here is to update to a newer NetworkManager, based on code 
> that's not 0.3x.  Later stuff uses dhclient which is more compatible with other 
> DHCP servers.
> 

My version number is NetworkManager-0.4-20.FC4.1

I'm not sure what to think about this. I'll take it into account next time I run into problems.
I can't update to a later NM without going for a FC5 development system, can I?

Thanks for the replies
Rene

Sep  4 20:12:11 xrene kernel: Restarting tasks... done
Sep  4 20:12:16 xrene NetworkManager: DHCP: Got some data of length 63.
Sep  4 20:12:16 xrene NetworkManager: DHCP: Reply message's source port (32856) was not the DHCP server port number (67), won't use it.
Sep  4 20:12:16 xrene NetworkManager: DHCP: Got some data of length 67.
Sep  4 20:12:16 xrene NetworkManager: DHCP: Reply message's source port (32857) was not the DHCP server port number (67), won't use it.
Sep  4 20:12:17 xrene NetworkManager: DHCP: Request sent, waiting for reply...
Sep  4 20:12:21 xrene NetworkManager: DHCP: Got some data of length 73.
Sep  4 20:12:21 xrene NetworkManager: DHCP: Reply message's source port (32858) was not the DHCP server port number (67), won't use it.
Sep  4 20:12:21 xrene NetworkManager: DHCP: Got some data of length 77.
Sep  4 20:12:21 xrene NetworkManager: DHCP: Reply message's source port (32859) was not the DHCP server port number (67), won't use it.
Sep  4 20:12:22 xrene NetworkManager: DHCP: Got some data of length 116.
Sep  4 20:12:22 xrene NetworkManager: DHCP: Reply message was not UDP (ip_hdr->protocol = 1, IPPROTO_UDP = 17), won't use it.
Sep  4 20:12:22 xrene NetworkManager: DHCP: Got some data of length 91.
Sep  4 20:12:22 xrene NetworkManager: DHCP: Reply message was not UDP (ip_hdr->protocol = 1, IPPROTO_UDP = 17), won't use it.
Sep  4 20:12:22 xrene NetworkManager: DHCP: Got some data of length 95.
Sep  4 20:12:22 xrene NetworkManager: DHCP: Reply message was not UDP (ip_hdr->protocol = 1, IPPROTO_UDP = 17), won't use it.
Sep  4 20:12:26 xrene NetworkManager: DHCP: Got some data of length 112.
Sep  4 20:12:26 xrene NetworkManager: DHCP: Reply message was not UDP (ip_hdr->protocol = 1, IPPROTO_UDP = 17), won't use it.
Sep  4 20:12:26 xrene NetworkManager: DHCP: Got some data of length 116.
Sep  4 20:12:26 xrene NetworkManager: DHCP: Reply message was not UDP (ip_hdr->protocol = 1, IPPROTO_UDP = 17), won't use it.
Sep  4 20:12:26 xrene NetworkManager: DHCP: Got some data of length 109.
Sep  4 20:12:26 xrene NetworkManager: DHCP: Reply message was not UDP (ip_hdr->protocol = 1, IPPROTO_UDP = 17), won't use it.
Sep  4 20:12:26 xrene NetworkManager: DHCP: Got some data of length 73.
Sep  4 20:12:26 xrene NetworkManager: DHCP: Reply message's source port (32858) was not the DHCP server port number (67), won't use it.
Sep  4 20:12:26 xrene NetworkManager: DHCP: Got some data of length 77.
Sep  4 20:12:26 xrene NetworkManager: DHCP: Reply message's source port (32859) was not the DHCP server port number (67), won't use it.
Sep  4 20:12:28 xrene NetworkManager: DHCP: Request sent, waiting for reply...
Sep  4 20:12:28 xrene NetworkManager: DHCP: Got some data of length 332.
Sep  4 20:12:28 xrene NetworkManager: DHCP: Reply message's source port (68) was not the DHCP server port number (67), won't use it.
Sep  4 20:12:29 xrene NetworkManager: DHCP: Got some data of length 81.
Sep  4 20:12:29 xrene NetworkManager: DHCP: Reply message was not UDP (ip_hdr->protocol = 1, IPPROTO_UDP = 17), won't use it.
Sep  4 20:12:29 xrene NetworkManager: DHCP: Got some data of length 101.
Sep  4 20:12:29 xrene NetworkManager: DHCP: Reply message was not UDP (ip_hdr->protocol = 1, IPPROTO_UDP = 17), won't use it.
Sep  4 20:12:29 xrene NetworkManager: DHCP: Got some data of length 105.
Sep  4 20:12:29 xrene NetworkManager: DHCP: Reply message was not UDP (ip_hdr->protocol = 1, IPPROTO_UDP = 17), won't use it.
Sep  4 20:12:31 xrene NetworkManager: DHCP: Got some data of length 63.
Sep  4 20:12:31 xrene NetworkManager: DHCP: Reply message's source port (32860) was not the DHCP server port number (67), won't use it.
Sep  4 20:12:31 xrene NetworkManager: DHCP: Got some data of length 203.
Sep  4 20:12:31 xrene NetworkManager: DHCP: Reply message's source port (53) was not the DHCP server port number (67), won't use it.
Sep  4 20:12:32 xrene NetworkManager: DHCP: Got some data of length 88.
Sep  4 20:12:32 xrene NetworkManager: DHCP: Reply message was not UDP (ip_hdr->protocol = 1, IPPROTO_UDP = 17), won't use it.
Sep  4 20:12:32 xrene NetworkManager: DHCP: Got some data of length 101.
Sep  4 20:12:32 xrene NetworkManager: DHCP: Reply message was not UDP (ip_hdr->protocol = 1, IPPROTO_UDP = 17), won't use it.
Sep  4 20:12:32 xrene NetworkManager: DHCP: Got some data of length 105.
Sep  4 20:12:32 xrene NetworkManager: DHCP: Reply message was not UDP (ip_hdr->protocol = 1, IPPROTO_UDP = 17), won't use it.
Sep  4 20:12:36 xrene NetworkManager: DHCP: Got some data of length 74.
Sep  4 20:12:36 xrene NetworkManager: DHCP: Reply message was not UDP (ip_hdr->protocol = 1, IPPROTO_UDP = 17), won't use it.
Sep  4 20:12:36 xrene NetworkManager: DHCP: Got some data of length 88.
Sep  4 20:12:36 xrene NetworkManager: DHCP: Reply message was not UDP (ip_hdr->protocol = 1, IPPROTO_UDP = 17), won't use it.
Sep  4 20:12:36 xrene NetworkManager: DHCP: Got some data of length 109.
Sep  4 20:12:36 xrene NetworkManager: DHCP: Reply message was not UDP (ip_hdr->protocol = 1, IPPROTO_UDP = 17), won't use it.
Sep  4 20:12:39 xrene NetworkManager: DHCP: Got some data of length 91.
Sep  4 20:12:39 xrene NetworkManager: DHCP: Reply message was not UDP (ip_hdr->protocol = 1, IPPROTO_UDP = 17), won't use it.
Sep  4 20:12:39 xrene NetworkManager: DHCP: Got some data of length 95.
Sep  4 20:12:39 xrene NetworkManager: DHCP: Reply message was not UDP (ip_hdr->protocol = 1, IPPROTO_UDP = 17), won't use it.
Sep  4 20:12:39 xrene NetworkManager: DHCP: Got some data of length 88.
Sep  4 20:12:39 xrene NetworkManager: DHCP: Reply message was not UDP (ip_hdr->protocol = 1, IPPROTO_UDP = 17), won't use it.
Sep  4 20:12:41 xrene NetworkManager: DHCP: Got some data of length 63.
Sep  4 20:12:41 xrene NetworkManager: DHCP: Reply message's source port (53) was not the DHCP server port number (67), won't use it.
Sep  4 20:12:41 xrene NetworkManager: DHCP: Got some data of length 91.
Sep  4 20:12:41 xrene NetworkManager: DHCP: Reply message was not UDP (ip_hdr->protocol = 1, IPPROTO_UDP = 17), won't use it.
Sep  4 20:12:41 xrene NetworkManager: DHCP: Got some data of length 63.
Sep  4 20:12:41 xrene NetworkManager: DHCP: Reply message's source port (53) was not the DHCP server port number (67), won't use it.
Sep  4 20:12:41 xrene NetworkManager: DHCP: Got some data of length 91.
Sep  4 20:12:41 xrene NetworkManager: DHCP: Reply message was not UDP (ip_hdr->protocol = 1, IPPROTO_UDP = 17), won't use it.
Sep  4 20:12:41 xrene NetworkManager: DHCP: Got some data of length 67.
Sep  4 20:12:41 xrene NetworkManager: DHCP: Reply message's source port (53) was not the DHCP server port number (67), won't use it.
Sep  4 20:12:41 xrene NetworkManager: DHCP: Got some data of length 95.
Sep  4 20:12:41 xrene NetworkManager: DHCP: Reply message was not UDP (ip_hdr->protocol = 1, IPPROTO_UDP = 17), won't use it.
Sep  4 20:12:41 xrene NetworkManager: DHCP: Got some data of length 67.
Sep  4 20:12:41 xrene NetworkManager: DHCP: Reply message's source port (53) was not the DHCP server port number (67), won't use it.
Sep  4 20:13:40 xrene NetworkManager: <WARNING>	  (): org.freedesktop.NetworkManagerInfo.BadNetworkData raised 'NetworkManagerInfo::getNetworkProperties could not access essid for network 'networks'' 
Sep  4 20:13:54 xrene NetworkManager: <WARNING>	  (): org.freedesktop.NetworkManagerInfo.BadNetworkData raised 'NetworkManagerInfo::getNetworkProperties could not access essid for network 'networks'' 
Sep  4 20:14:50 xrene NetworkManager: <WARNING>	  (): org.freedesktop.NetworkManagerInfo.BadNetworkData raised 'NetworkManagerInfo::getNetworkProperties could not access essid for network 'networks''