On Tue, Jul 03, 2001 at 04:14:19PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > Switched to VC2, noted that ifconfig -a listed eth0, so didn't setup > any modules. Went to configure the network, tried DHCP, waited for a > few minutes (which seems very dodgy) got told it had been successfully > configured, switched to VC2, noted that eth0 didn't have an IP address. > Fixed DHCP server, tried again. This time it took only a couple of seconds, > and actually did work.
This is a bug in dbootstrap. It checks the return value of dhclient to see if the network was successfully configured via DHCP, but dhclient returns 0 even if configuration failed. We need to use some other method to determine whether or not the network configuration was successful. Matt
