dhclient on linux ppc

Anselmo Lacerda Silveira de Melo anselmo.melo at asga.com.br
Thu Oct 19 15:59:36 UTC 2006


Em Qui, 2006-10-19 às 09:06 -0700, David W. Hankins escreveu:
> On Thu, Oct 19, 2006 at 11:37:51AM -0200, Anselmo Lacerda Silveira de Melo wrote:
> > Can't get interface flags for : No such device
> 
> Looks like a bug in SIOCIFCONF.  It's giving an interface structure with
> no name.
> 
> Try editing common/discover.c, here:
> 
>         /* Cycle through the list of interfaces looking for IP addresses. */
>         for (i = 0; i < ic.ifc_len;) {
>                 struct ifreq *ifp = (struct ifreq *)((caddr_t)ic.ifc_req + i);
> 
> Just after this line, add:
> 
> 		if (ifp->ifr_name[0] == '\0')
> 			continue;
> 


Now when I run dhclient, it only shows the default copyright message and
nothing else (stays freezed)


> > Can anybody help me, please?
> 
> Either way, I suspect this is a linux kernel bug.
> 
:-/ 


--
Anselmo



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