Re: Strange behaviour from 0.5.1 and 2006-02-21 cvs

["aj2r ya com " <aj2r ya com>]

man dhclient:
"The  -x  argument  enables eXtended option information to be
created in the -s dhclient-script environment, which would
allow applications running  in  that  environment to handle
options they do not know about in advance."

With -x in dhclient do you have problem?


>I'm having a strange problem with NetworkManager 0.5.1 and
0.5.2 from
>2006-02-21 (The two current builds in the Gentopia portage
overlay)
>NetworkManager will set the essid and the wep key for the
network properly,
>it'll get an ip address and set a route, and then it will
just... hang there,
>spinning its icon ... and then drop the ip/route, and ask for
the key again.
>The app versions are:
>dhcdbd is 1.12 (I made a modification to this as an
experiment, patched out
>the use of -x with dhclient)
>dbus is 0.60
>hal is 0.5.6
>I would tentatively guess that this is an issue with dhcdbd
not telling
>NetworkManager that everything worked, and it timing out and
killing the
>dhclient process, but like I said, that's just a guess.
>Has anyone seen something like this?
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