[BusyBox] udchpc lock-up
Jeff "Tiny"Warren
tiny.laser at verizon.net
Thu Sep 16 05:57:46 UTC 2004
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.
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