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Date:      Mon, 21 Dec 1998 18:44:36 -0700
From:      Greg Skafte <skafte@worldgate.com>
To:        Marc van Kempen <marc@bowtie.nl>
Cc:        hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Anyone with DHCP experience
Message-ID:  <19981221184436.I15812@gras-varg.worldgate.com>
In-Reply-To: <199812211024.LAA19441@bowtie.nl>; from Marc van Kempen on Mon, Dec 21, 1998 at 11:24:15AM %2B0100
References:  <199812211024.LAA19441@bowtie.nl>

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not haveing any issues with isc-dhcp2 on 509b's either as a server or a
client

Quoting Marc van Kempen (marc@bowtie.nl)
On Subject: Anyone with DHCP experience
Date: Mon, Dec 21, 1998 at 11:24:15AM +0100

> 
> Hi,
> 
> I'm having some troubles getting DHCP to work with my 3c509b network 
> card. I know this card is not among the best supported, but I'm forced
> to use this card by my cable network provider.
> 
> I have used both wide-dhcp and isc-dhcp, but only succeeded so far 
> with wide-dhcp.
> 
> I have had some success, but now it seems to refuse to come back up.
> When I look at the packets floating by with tcpdump, it seems the 
> client sends out the request (DHCPDISCOVER) correctly, but then
> gets a response back that contains a remark about an incorrect cksum.
> 
> I'm not fluent at reading tcpdump output, but this is what it looks
> like.
> 
> Now, does this ring a bell for someone? 
> 
> I stronly suspect the driver for the 3c509b, but I'm tied to it, or 
> could I use another card, and sent the mac address of the 
> 3c509b with the DHCP request? 
> Isc-dhcp seems to have that capability, but sends out its broadcast
> addresses using 'ifconfig ep0 0.0.0.0 broadcast 255.255.255.255' and 
> that results in a send error when I run it (the latest isc-dhcp from 
> december 4)
> 
> Oh, and to rule out any dhcp server configurations errors, Win95 comes
> up with no problems at all (assuming this means anything at all ;-))
> 
> Regards,
> Marc.
> 
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