[RULE] RULE w/ RH 8.0 using 3Com 3c905CX-TXM

[Jason Roysdon]

A few weeks ago I installed using RULE Slinky 0.6.3 and RH 7.3.  Everything 
just worked, including DHCP.

Last week I installed again using RULE Slinky 0.6.3 and RH 8.0.  DHCP now 
doesn't work.  I know the DHCP servers are up and running and that there are 
addresses available (actually, we do static MAC->IP assignments).  If I 
manually set /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 it will initialize 
eth0 just fine:
BOOTPROTO=none
IPADDR=nnn.nnn.nnn.62
NETMASK=255.255.255.128
GATEWAY=nnn.nnn.nnn.23

If it set to BOOTPROTO=dhcp and comment out the other lines I'll get 
"Determining IP information for eth0.... failed."

I know the Linksys Switch I'm using is good, and I suppose the only 
remaining thing would be to use a sniffer to see if there are actual DHCP 
client udp/67 requests getting sent out (but I know they're not making it to 
my two DHCPd servers).  Using 'tcpdump udp port 67' on each DHCPd server I 
see there is no request coming in (but I see them from other hosts).  Once I 
bind a static IP I can ping/ssh/etc. to the two DHCPd servers, so I know 
it's not a connectivity issue to them.

Has anyone else run into this?  What info do you need to troubleshoot this 
further?

This is using a PCI 3Com 3Com 3c905CX-TXM NIC.

Jason Roysdon
http://jason.roysdon.net/


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