Package: isc-dhcp-client Version: 4.3.1-6+deb8u2 Severity: important Tags: patch
Dear Maintainer, I have an issue with dhclient, if I try to connect to an wireless network via USB dongle. According to syslog everything goes well until the address association via DHCP. Disabling DHCP and setting a static IP in the client also fixes the issue, so I think we can narrow it down to dhclient. The error displayed in syslog is as follows: Bind socket to interface: No such device Thanks to unix.stackexchange.com I was able to create a workaround for it. There seems to be a problem with the buffer size of the interface name. The buffer is too small to hold a complete "predictable network interface name" (not sure why wlx112233445566 is more predictable than wlan0 but that's another story), so my proposed fix is to increase the size of said buffer. The workaround is to rename the device with the long name to "wlan0" or something similar via an udev rule. Hopefully I added all necessary information to resolve the problem. Cheers from Germany DBX12 -- System Information: Debian Release: 8.7 APT prefers stable-updates APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: armhf (armv7l) Kernel: Linux 3.10.105+ (SMP w/8 CPU cores; PREEMPT) Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init) Versions of packages isc-dhcp-client depends on: ii debianutils 4.4+b1 ii iproute2 3.16.0-2 ii isc-dhcp-common 4.3.1-6+deb8u2 ii libc6 2.19-18+deb8u7 ii libdns-export100 1:9.9.5.dfsg-9+deb8u10 ii libirs-export91 1:9.9.5.dfsg-9+deb8u10 ii libisc-export95 1:9.9.5.dfsg-9+deb8u10 isc-dhcp-client recommends no packages. Versions of packages isc-dhcp-client suggests: pn avahi-autoipd <none> pn resolvconf <none> -- no debconf information
