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Subject: [ts-7000] Re: Still having problems with dhcp on TS7400
From: "Peter Santangeli" <>
Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2008 02:59:46 -0000
Thanks!

I'll give it a try tomorrow, but I'm pretty sure my MTU is set to 1500.

Pete

--- In  "charliem_1216" <> wrote:
>
> --- In  "Peter Santangeli" <peter@> 
> wrote:
> >
> > I asked this a few months ago, and never really got a response. 
> I'm
> > having a heck of a time getting dhcp running on a ts7400. I'm 
> running
> > from the SD card, and pump seems to be failing with:
> > 
> > DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 4
> > send_packet: Message too long
> > 
> > I've tried using pump, dhcpcd, dhcp3-client, all fail the same 
> way,
> > like it is a driver problem.
> > 
> > Does anyone have dhcp running on a ts board running debian?
> > 
> > Pete
> >
> 
> Hi Pete --
> 
> This is usually because your MTU is set too low.  What 
> does 'ifconfig eth0' say?  MTU=64 is a common but bad value, and 
> gives the 'Message too long' message.  Try 'ifconfig eth0 MTU 1400'.
> 
> Set your dhcp client config to ignore the MTU returned by the 
> (presumably crappy) dhcp server.  (ie for dhcp3-client, remove 
> the 'interface-mtu' from /etc/dhcp3/dhclient.conf).  
> 
> Or if you can control the MTU value the dhcp server hands out, set 
> it to something reasonable.
> 
> Regards, ....... Charlie
>




 
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