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Subject: [ts-7000] Re: HELP! About to give up on Technologic Systems...
From: "Peter Santangeli" <>
Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2008 01:07:26 -0000
Thanks!

It's always good to know something is possible.

Starting again... reflashing board, starting with new Debian install...

Wish me luck :-)

Pete

--- In  "James Bridson" <> wrote:
>
> Peter,
>  
> I am running dhcp on a wired interface on a TS-7250 with the full Debian
> distribution booted via RedBoot from TS without any problems. I am using
> /etc/network/interfaces to configure it all. I am not doing anything
> unusual to make this work.
>  
> Regards,
>  
> James
> 
> 
> ________________________________
> 
>       From:  
> On Behalf Of Peter Santangeli
>       Sent: 24 January 2008 19:30
>       To: 
>       Subject: [ts-7000] HELP! About to give up on Technologic
> Systems...
>       
>       
> 
>       
>       OK, now I tried switching to udhcpc for kicks, and I get 
>       "Operation failed." when it tries to run pump.
>       
>       This is crazy. Getting a DHCP client running on a linux box
> shouldn't
>       be this hard. 
>       
>       I had this same problem with a TS-7260 board months ago, and it
> never
>       got resolved.
>       
>       I've tried running against DHCP servers on OpenWRT, default
> Linksys
>       boxes, and our regular Slug based system that dozens of machines
>       connect happily to every day.
>       
>       Mean time between email responses from Technologic seems to be 2
> days.
>       
>       I was honestly about to roll out a prototype product based on
> the Wifi
>       box to at least 100 customers. I'm at the point of going back to
> the
>       drawing board on this though.
>       
>       Is ANYONE running DHCP on a TS box while running full Debian?
>       
>       Pete
>       
>       --- In 
> <ts-7000%40yahoogroups.com> , "Peter Santangeli" <peter@>
> wrote:
>       >
>       > 
>       > Unfortunately, no joy. Here's the output I get when I run ifup
>       > --verbose eth0
>       > 
>       > Configuring interface eth0=eth0 (inet) 
>       > 
>       > run-parts --verbose /etc/network/if-pre-up.d 
>       > 
>       > run-parts: executing /etc/network/if-pre-up.d/bridge 
>       > 
>       > run-parts: executing /etc/network/if-pre-up.d/wireless-tools 
>       > 
>       > run-parts: executing /etc/network/if-pre-up.d/wpasupplicant 
>       > 
>       > 
>       > 
>       > dhclient3 -pf /var/run/dhclient.eth0.pid -lf
>       > /var/run/dhclient.eth0.leases eth0 
>       > Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client V3.0.4 
>       > 
>       > Copyright 2004-2006 Internet Systems Consortium. 
>       > 
>       > All rights reserved. 
>       > 
>       > For info, please visit http://www.isc.org/sw/dhcp/
> <http://www.isc.org/sw/dhcp/>  
>       > 
>       > 
>       > 
>       > Listening on LPF/eth0/00:d0:69:40:e8:e5 
>       > 
>       > Sending on LPF/eth0/00:d0:69:40:e8:e5 
>       > 
>       > Sending on Socket/fallback 
>       > 
>       > receive_packet failed on eth0: Network is down 
>       > 
>       > DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 5 
>       > 
>       > send_packet: Message too long 
>       > 
>       > 
>       > --- In 
> <ts-7000%40yahoogroups.com> , "charliem_1216" <charliem_1216@>
> wrote:
>       > >
>       > > --- In 
> <ts-7000%40yahoogroups.com> , "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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