[BusyBox] udchpc lock-up

[Jeff "Tiny"Warren]

Did you make sure that you have CONFIG_PACKET defined in your kernel
config.  That's the networking option that allows the kernel to deal
with packets that have no protocol header which dhcp falls under.  I ran
into that little pitfall myself...

Regards,

Jeff

On Wed, 2004-09-15 at 13:38, Keath Milligan wrote:
> Keath Milligan wrote:
> 
> > udhcpc is locking up for me. When the system boots, I see the udhcpc 
> > started message, eth0 link up and then it just hangs. I can hit ctrl-c 
> > and get a login prompt. Same result when udhcpc is run from the 
> > command line.
> >
> > The network card appears to be up and running - ifconfig shows it with 
> > the correct MAC address and it appears to be receiving packets (but 
> > shows a transmit packet count of 0).
> 
> Just to follow-up on this, I tried configuring the system with a static 
> IP and it works. It looks like the initial select in udhcpc's main loop 
> is timing out repeatedly.