Re: dhcp client support broken on karmic with latest NM build

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

On Thu, 2010-02-25 at 14:15 +0100, Torsten Spindler wrote:
> Hello Alessandro,
> 
> the latest network-manager needs dhclient version 4, Ubuntu only ships
> version 3. I tried to compile network-manager with the options
> --with-dhclient=no --with-dhcpcd=yes
> but it still seems to want to use dhclient. As a test I packaged

Those options no longer have an effect, support for *both* is included
at runtime and switchable via configuration.  You have three options:

1) Set IPv6 to "ignore" for that connection, at which point DHCPv6 won't
run if the RA told NM to do so
2) Get dhclient v4, which has been out for years
3) Set the 'dhcp' property in the [main] section of
nm-system-settings.conf to either "dhclient" or "dhcpcd"

Note that with dhcpcd you won't be able to do DHCPv6 either since I
don't think it supports that.

Dan
 

> dhclient version 4 and it seems to work. Albeit packaging it properly is
> beyond my debian packaging capabilities ...
> 
> Regards,
> Torsten
> 
> On Thu, 2010-02-25 at 14:04 +0100, Alessandro Bono wrote:
> > Hi all
> > 
> > Today my machine it's not able to take an ip from either wifi or
> > ethernet, looking at log there is this message
> > 
> > Feb 25 10:08:41 champagne NetworkManager: Activation (eth0) Beginning DHCPv4 transaction (timeout in 45 seconds)
> > Feb 25 10:08:41 champagne dhclient: Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client V3.1.2                              
> > Feb 25 10:08:41 champagne dhclient: Copyright 2004-2008 Internet Systems Consortium.                            
> > Feb 25 10:08:41 champagne dhclient: All rights reserved.                                                        
> > Feb 25 10:08:41 champagne dhclient: For info, please visit http://www.isc.org/sw/dhcp/                          
> > Feb 25 10:08:41 champagne dhclient: Usage: dhclient [-1dqrx] [-nw] [-p <port>] [-s server]                      
> > Feb 25 10:08:41 champagne dhclient:                 [-cf config-file] [-lf lease-file][-pf pid-file] [-e VAR=val]
> > Feb 25 10:08:41 champagne dhclient:                 [-sf script-file] [interface]                                
> > Feb 25 10:08:41 champagne NetworkManager: <info>  dhclient started with pid 8817                                 
> > Feb 25 10:08:41 champagne NetworkManager: <info>  Activation (eth0) Stage 4 of 5 (IP6 Configure Get) scheduled...
> > Feb 25 10:08:41 champagne NetworkManager: <info>  Activation (eth0) Stage 3 of 5 (IP Configure Start) complete.  
> > Feb 25 10:08:41 champagne NetworkManager: <info>  Activation (eth0) Stage 4 of 5 (IP6 Configure Get) started...  
> > Feb 25 10:08:41 champagne NetworkManager: <info>  Activation (eth0) Stage 4 of 5 (IP6 Configure Get) complete.   
> > 
> > 
> > so seems that yesterday update broke dhcp support
> > 
> > 
> > ii  network-manager                                0.8-0ubuntu4~nmt4~karmic                                   network management framework daemon
> > ii  network-manager-dev                            0.8-0ubuntu4~nmt4~karmic                                   network management framework (development fi
> > ii  network-manager-gnome                          0.8-0ubuntu3~nmt2~karmic                                   network management framework (GNOME frontend
> > ii  network-manager-openconnect                    0.8~rc1-0ubuntu1~nm1~karmic                                network management framework (Openconnect pl
> > ii  network-manager-openvpn                        0.8~rc1-0ubuntu1~nm1~karmic                                network management framework (OpenVPN plugin
> > ii  network-manager-pptp                           0.8-0ubuntu2~nmt1~karmic                                   network management framework (PPTP plugin)
> > ii  network-manager-strongswan                     1.1.1-2ubuntu1                                             network management framework (strongSwan plu
> > ii  network-manager-vpnc                           0.8-0ubuntu2~nmt1~karmic                                   network management framework (VPNC plugin)
> > 
> > 
> 
> 
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