On Tuesday 10 February 2004 14:06, Peter McEvoy wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 10, 2004 at 01:07:56PM +0000, Declan Grady wrote:
> > > Did you compile your own kernel on the debian box? dhcp-client requires
> > > some kernel options to be turned on, namely CONFIG_FILTER and
> > > CONFIG_PACKET , if you missed these you'll need to recompile.
> >
> > I used the stock 2.4 kernel.
> > OK, back to the debian-kernel-howto I guess.
> > Cheers.
>> The BF2.4 debian kernel has these both on, so it's not that.
> Have you tried using a different dhcp client? I can remember problems
> using certain clients and NTL, in that some worked, some didnt.
>
Yeah, used dhcpcd (I hate dhclient), also check that you don't have any
firewall rules blocking the responses.
> --
> Pete
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