Re: dhcp (pump)

"Steven W. Orr" <[email protected]> wrote:
> To: "David J. R. Brook" <[email protected]>
> cc: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: dhcp (pump)
> Organization: SysLang Inc.
> Reply-To: [email protected]
> 
> On Thursday, Jul 3rd 2003 at 08:01 -0400, quoth David J. R. Brook:
> 
> =>I have an old pentium box running 7.1 that acts as a
> =>firewall between my cable modem and home computers.
> =>The external ip address is configured via dhcp using pump.
> =>Problem is that the computer fails to renew the lease on the
> =>ip address on a regular basis. If I log on to the computer
> =>and type 'pump' it (somtimes) renews the lease, but it
> =>doesn't seem to do it automatically. I called the ISP
> =>(Comcast) to ask if there were any problems on their end -
> =>they said my network card (an old ne2000) was crapping out.
> =>Not sure if i believe it. Any ideas?
> 
> Do not use pump. It's broken. Use dhcpcd.

Amen.  Pump is also broken because it sends out DHCP requests with a 
source IP other than 0.0.0.0 if you have multiple interfaces.  Caused me 
about a week's headache with my ISP when they stopped accepting these 
non-RFC-compliant requests.
John
> 
> The problem is that when a lease is expired pump aborts. Dhcpcd will ask 
> for a new lease.
>