dhcp on debian (was: [CLUE-Tech] Building Kernel w/Debian)

[David Anselmi]

Matt Gushee wrote:
[...]
> 
> Well, your posts have inspired me to finally get off my butt and take a
> serious look at my DHCP problem. I found that I was getting the same
> error messages, so I've just recompiled the kernel on one of my boxes
> with CONFIG_FILTER enabled, and sho' nuff, DHCP is now working.
> 
> This thing could stand to be a little better documented. Maybe we should
> contact the people responsible for documenting the kernel and dhclient,
> and suggest they put in a note about this problem.
> 

I didn't doubt that you were having problems Matt, just wouldn't believe 
that it was insolvable until I looked at it.  I lucked out that Randy 
hit on the fix because I'm not sure that I would have ;-)

It would be nice if this were better documented (especially if dhcpcd 
works the same way).  I would be interested to see the discussion if you 
suggest a change--where do the gurus think this should be documented.

Have you noticed that when you install a debian kernel they put the 
config in /boot?  So you might diff your kernel config against an 
"official" one to see if anything jumps out.

Dave