macos script (linux)

[Daniel Le]

David, please see my answers inline.

Also a few questions, if you don't mind:
1. When I run one dhclient process per network interface, is it better
to have a common client config file with interface-specific info
enclosed in interface "eth0" {...}, or separate config files?
2. I notices in my testing that the dhclient.leases file is common.
Additional leases are appended at the end. However, new dhclient process
Id overwrites an existing PID in the dhclient.pid file, thus only the
last process id is saved. Is this intended?
3. I'm not sure how "dhclient -r" works. The command does not kill the
dhclient process and dhclient.leases does not remove the address that
was leased.

-----Original Message-----
From: dhcp-users-bounces at lists.isc.org
[mailto:dhcp-users-bounces at lists.isc.org] On Behalf Of David W. Hankins
Sent: Thursday, November 05, 2009 2:24 PM
To: Users of ISC DHCP
Subject: Re: macos script

On Mon, Nov 02, 2009 at 11:17:29PM -0500, Daniel Le wrote:
> An add-on note: in reading the output again, I realized that the 
> client does receive advertisements from the server, re. RCV: Advertise

> message on eth0 from fe80::21e:f7ff:fe84:85c3.

Yes, your server is advertising that it has no addresses to give.

The client doesn't want a lease without addresses...

The output here is what your server is sending in the error message
string at the end of the status code option the server supplies:

> IA_NA status code NoAddrsAvail: "NOADDRS-AVAIL"

I think the helpful text your server is providing is pretty lame.

In the ISC DHCPv6 server for example it would look like:

| IA_NA status code NoAddrsAvail: "No addresses available for this
interface."

[DL] Indeed. It was a DHCPv6 server (Cisco router C3750) pool
configuration issue and has been corrected in my test environment.

> 5. What does " ip: either "dev" is duplicate, or "permanent" is a 
> garbage" refer to?

News to me.  That placement in the client's processing is at the start
when it wants to initialize the interface - flush any previous
configuration out.  So it is probably semi harmless in that you might
not notice a problem from it.

Can you do /sbin/ip -V for me?  We can see if there's a different,
backwards compatible syntax we can use.

[DL] I'm using the ip utility that is included in BusyBox v1.1.3, and
unfortunately this compact version of ip does not handle the option -V
to display its version.
[DL] I tried to flush all previous IP addresses, brought the interface
down and back up, but still was not able to make the message 'ip: either
"dev" is duplicate, or "permanent" is a garbage' go away. The lease was
nevertheless successful. FYI, I run udhcpc client on the same network
interface for DHCPv4 addresses.

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