dhcpd on Solaris 10

[Glenn Satchell]

Ok, that environment is a little different to mine then :)

Here are my build definitions:

VER=4.1.1
CFLAGS='-O -D_PATH_DHCPD_CONF=\"/usr/local/etc/dhcpd.conf\"' \
     ./configure \
     --prefix=/usr/local/pkgs/$VER \
     --sysconfdir=/usr/local/etc \
     --mandir=/usr/local/pkgs/$VER/man \
     --localstatedir=/var \
     --with-srv-lease-file=/var/dhcp/dhcpd.leases \
     --with-srv6-lease-file=/var/dhcp/dhcpd6.leases \
     --with-cli-lease-file=/var/dhcp/dhclient.leases \
     --with-cli6-lease-file=/var/dhcp/dhclient6.leases

so, no USE_SOCKETS or anything else very fancy.

My personal experience was that no version 4.x server before 4.1.0b1 
would work on Solaris 10 due to the DLPI bug.

The RELNOTES file for 4.2.0a1 bundles all the changes since 4.1.0 into 
one section, so it's not clear which fixes were in 4.1.1, and which were 
fixed after 4.1.1, or indeed if there were more fixes for the same 
problem both in 4.1.1 and after that release. So it's a bit hard to know 
what particular change may have changed the behaviour you see. I guess 
Opensolaris is a bit of a moving target, and lots of different ways to 
configure virtual machines and networking. The user community can help 
here by reporting, as you have done, things that do and don't work in 
the alpha releases.

regards,
-glenn

Robert Milkowski wrote:
> 
> Open Solaris b132 on an Intel 64bit, then another Open Solaris b132 
> 64bit within VirtualBox with internal networking interface configured as 
> Intel 1000g - e1000g configured as dhcp server while yet another VB 
> client (same settings) is configured as a dhcp client.
> 
> With 4.1.1 by using snoop I can see DHCPDISCOVER being send by a client 
> and received by the server (packet arrived) but I can't see any 
> DHCPOFFER packet. In system logs sometimes dhcp logs that DHCPDICOVER 
> was received and it logs DHCPOFFER but not actual packed has been sent. 
> But most of the time it doesn't even log anything.
> 
> 4.2.0a1 works perfectly fine on the same VB clients.
> 
> 
> The same issue was observed by 
> http://fixunix.com/solaris-rss/576728-how-use-isc-dhcp-opensolaris-automated-installer.html 
> 
> 
> However 4.1.0 used to work fine for me when configured in an 
> ip-exclusive zone on-top of Crossbow's vnics but it doesn't work in the 
> above set-up.
> 
> btw: there is a isc dhcp package (4.1.0) in pkg.opensolaris.org/contrib 
> submittd by me sometime ago along with SMF manifest. I'm trying to 
> submit 4.2.0a1...
> 
> 
> ps. I assume you haven't compiled with USE_SOCKET, have you?
>