On Sat, Jan 03, 2004 at 07:04:08PM -0700, Paul Schwartz wrote: > Problem solved. Recompiling with CONFIG_FILTER set lets dhcp work. I > think they ought to change the recommendation in menuconfig; it kind of > says it's not important and to set it to N if you're not sure. Doesn't > seem like a good choice; it oughtto at least mention its need for dhcp.
Definitively. That's why I quoted it, to expose Edward's advise as a bullshit (see bellow). It wasn't apparently. I'll file a bug with the Configure.help's maintainers, pointing them to this thread. Does anybody wants to add anything before I do so? Jan. On Fri, Jan 02, 2004 at 07:15:37AM +0100, Jan Minar wrote: > On Fri, Jan 02, 2004 at 11:23:06AM +1300, Edward Murrell wrote: > > Check your /var/log/messages file. The most likely error is that you > > didn't enable Socket Filtering in the networking options. You will need > > to recompile for this option to work. > > /usr/src/linux-2.4.23/Documentation/Configure.help: > > | Socket filtering > | CONFIG_FILTER > | The Linux Socket Filter is derived from the Berkeley Packet Filter. > | If you say Y here, user-space programs can attach a filter to any > | socket and thereby tell the kernel that it should allow or disallow > | certain types of data to get through the socket. Linux Socket > | Filtering works on all socket types except TCP for now. See the > | text file <file:Documentation/networking/filter.txt> for more > | information. -- Jan Minar "Please don't CC me, I'm subscribed." x 7
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