Re: dhcp help!

li
   Yes,I think that I configure the dhcp server correctly. I let one PC
to dynamically obtain IP address from the DHCP server I configured and
it got one smoothly from the server. Then I use 'ethereal' to capture
packets,and the result showed that "dhcp discover" packets and "dhcp
offer" packets were all correct.

did you configure the dpcpd in the host properly?

quoted

    Can anyone tell me where the mumber in_device *ip_ptr of the
struct net_device is initialized?
    I enable the DHCP and BOOTP kernel configurations,but I can not
boot my kernel successfully!
    The target sent dhcp discover message packet to the host
server,and the host server replied it with a dhcp offer message
packet.The target's ethernet card received the dhcp offer packet
and sent it to the IP protocol stack correctly.But the network
layer dropped the packet!I traced the packet receive process
and found that when the function ip_rcv_finish() was called,it
called the function ip_route_input(),then ip_route_input() called
ip_route_input_slow(),then ip_route_input() called in_device *in_dev
= in_dev_get(dev) which returned NULL! the source code of the
function in_dev_get(dev) is shown below:

static __inline__ struct in_device *
in_dev_get(const struct net_device *dev)
{
	struct in_device *in_dev;

	read_lock(&inetdev_lock);
	in_dev = dev->ip_ptr;
	if (in_dev)
		atomic_inc(&in_dev->refcnt);
	read_unlock(&inetdev_lock);
	return in_dev;
}

    I checked the kernel startup code and I found that when the
target dynamicly went to obtain its IP address,and when function
in_dev_get(dev) was called,the mumber in_device *ip_ptr of the struct
net_device *dev had not been initialized. I am confused by this
trouble.Is DHCP really used as I described? Did I make any mistake?

BTW: I use montavista linux 2.1

            Yuxiao Xi
            xiyuxiao@harbournetworks.com

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