[ltp] ibmtr_cs 2.2.18 and DHCP

Markus Alt linux-thinkpad@www.bm-soft.com
Tue, 19 Dec 2000 11:34:31 +0100


Nils Smeds wrote:
> 
> It may not be the best or most knowledgeable of advice, in particular as I
> don't use token ring at all. But anyway, I sometimes find myself in
> seemingly
> similar problems. The network card is up and running but no traffic is sent
> through. The workaround I have is to put the card in promiscuous mode for a
> few seconds. After a few packages made it through in promisc mode it works
> fine thereafter and I can put the card back in normal mode.
> 
> So, a typical "manual" use would be (but again this is for eth and not tr
> so
> if it works for you or not I don't know):

Thanks for the hint, but unfortunately this hasn't worked for me.
Although putting the tr0 interface to promiscuous mode, I still get the
same "dhclient: send_packet: No such device" messages as before. :-(

Markus
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