Bug 149017

Summary:	dhcp service will initialise too early
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Lars Langhans <lars.langhans>
Component:	[OLD] baselayout	Assignee:	Gentoo's Team for Core System packages <base-system>
Status:	VERIFIED WORKSFORME
Severity:	normal
Priority:	High
Version:	2006.1
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Lars Langhans 2006-09-24 23:25:02 UTC

Hi all,
I have 2 network cards in my computer, net.eth0 (wired) and net.ra0 (wireless).
I also use dhcpd service to give IP numbers automatically to all my computers. As long as I have only one network card, all works very well. After I insert and set up the second card, the problems began.

I don't get an IP address from the dhcp server, now I know the problem. /etc/init.d/dhcpd depends on "net" but is start short after /etc/init.d/net.ra0 is initialised. IMHO too early. 

My boot sequence seems to be:
...
/etc/init.d/net.ra0
/etc/init.d/dhcpd
/etc/init.d/net.eth0
...

And because dhcpd is initialised before net.eth0 is, it only snoops on net.ra0 and not on net.eth0.

My workaround is to remove dhcpd from runlevel (default) startup and start it by hand in /etc/conf.d/local.start after the whole computer has boot up right. Now dhcp snoops on net.ra0 and net.eth0. I get IP addresses again.

IMHO there seems to be a dependency problem. If a service "need net" all network cards should have been initialised (only IMHO).

Regards
Lars

Comment 1 Lars Langhans 2006-09-24 23:30:26 UTC

On point, baselayout-1.12.5.
The rest will follow.

Comment 2 Roy Marples (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2006-09-24 23:55:19 UTC

RC_STRICT_NET_CHECKING=yes in /etc/conf.d/rc
Any other value will have the effect you have shown.

Comment 3 Lars Langhans 2006-09-28 23:19:14 UTC

Hi Roy,
big thanks, works for me now.

I try to close this bug.