[SM-Discuss] bug? iptables, ifupdown

Eric Sandall eric at sandall.us
Thu Mar 5 14:41:19 EST 2009


Quoting Robert Figura <rfigura at aubergine.zwischengesicht.de>:

> Robert Figura <rfigura at aubergine.zwischengesicht.de> wrote:
>
>> * ifupdown does not work with 'dhcp' interfaces when dhcp is
>>   installed. It then selects dhclient and execs something like this
>>   command:
>>
>>> dhclient -e -pf /var/run/dhclient.eth0.pid -lf  
>>> /var/lib/dhcp/dhclient.eth0.leases eth0
>
> I just found out that the line could be correct since we have a dhcp
> 3.x in our grimoire. The line for dhclient3 is correct except it expects
> binary name to be dhclient3.
>
> Okay, but i still have to ask: What to do? Upgrade dhcp?

Is there an upstream bug to have this fixed? If not, we could patch  
iptables to work with dhclient3, unless a newer version already has  
this.

-sandalle

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