severity 379138 normal thanks On Fri, Jul 21, 2006 at 06:40:51PM +0200, Tore Anderson wrote: > Package: dhcp3-relay > Version: 3.0.4-6 > Severity: important > > I believe the following terminal log tells the full story: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] :) sudo dhcrelay3 -i eth0 -d 10.0.0.1 > Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Relay Agent V3.0.4 > Copyright 2004-2006 Internet Systems Consortium. > All rights reserved. > For info, please visit http://www.isc.org/sw/dhcp/ > Listening on LPF/eth0/00:50:8d:55:6a:fe > Sending on LPF/eth0/00:50:8d:55:6a:fe > Sending on Socket/fallback > ^C > [EMAIL PROTECTED] :( sudo ip a a 192.168.1.1/24 dev eth0 label eth0foo > [EMAIL PROTECTED] :) sudo dhcrelay3 -i eth0 -d 10.0.0.1 > Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Relay Agent V3.0.4 > Copyright 2004-2006 Internet Systems Consortium. > All rights reserved. > For info, please visit http://www.isc.org/sw/dhcp/ > Can't get interface flags for eth0foo: No such device > > For some reason it assumes «eth0foo» is a device of its own, which is > not the case (doesn't show up as a separate interface in /proc/net/dev > nor in the output of «ip a s»). > > It fails like this even when I ask it to listen on another interface > which doesn't have labeled addresses, as long as a labeled address > exist on a (unrelated) interface. >
I think this may fall into the Patient: "Doctor, it hurts when I do this" Doctor: "Well don't do that then" category. For what it's worth, if I add an IP address to eth0 with a label of eth0foo, ifconfig also has a hard time dealing with the situation. Try it and see. I suspect iproute is letting us doing things with the networking that older tools and methods of querying can't deal with. I'll try to send this upstream, but I don't know how much success I'll have. regards Andrew
