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--- Begin Message ---package: isc-dhcp-client version: 4.1.1-P1-12 hi! I kept getting the following error message from dhclient after some uptime: Bad line reading interface information Turns out the error occurs parsing /proc/net/dev. While the syntax of /proc/net/dev seemed ok, i had absurdly high counter values on one interface: eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr de:ad:be:ef:ca:fe UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:4158662212925880 errors:24951973277555280 dropped:8317324425851760 overruns:4158662212925880 frame:20793311064629400 TX packets:4158662212925880 errors:16634653146670815 dropped:0 overruns:4158662212925880 carrier:8317324425851760 collisions:20793311064629400 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:4158662212925880 (3.6 PiB) TX bytes:4158662212925880 (3.6 PiB) Interrupt:44 after resetting these counters to 0 (module unload/reload), dhclient works again. I don't know where these counter values come from, it's probably a module bug. Then again the values as such are totally valid and theoretically possible. I think dhclient should use the same data type/supported ranges for these counters if it wants to parse /proc/net/dev. btw: i tried to configure a different interface, not eth0. I.e. skipping parsing the rest of lines of interfaces dhclient doesn't deal with might be a better strategy regarding fault tolerance. regards, Chris
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--- Begin Message ---version: 4.3.5-3 getifaddrs is now used instead of /proc/net. Best wishes, Mike
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