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gw
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 Posted: Thu Sep 13, 2007 12:44 pm Post subject: dhclient: "option space agent" error message |
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Probably since upgrading to
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net-misc/dhcp-3.1.0
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I always get this type of error messages in my logfiles:
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dhclient: option_space_encapsulate: option space agent does not exist, but is configured.
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What does it mean, and how can I fix it?
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steveb
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| Posted: Thu Sep 13, 2007 6:26 pm Post subject: |
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You have the keyword "agent" in your configuration but the client does not know what to do with it. Could you post your configuration?
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gw
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| Posted: Mon Sep 17, 2007 12:18 pm Post subject: |
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| steveb wrote: | You have the keyword "agent" in your configuration but the client does not know what to do with it. Could you post your configuration?
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Sorry for my late answer, I've been offline for a couple of days.
Actually I have no dhcp configuration at all: none of the two files
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/etc/dhcp/dhclient.conf.sample
/etc/dhcp/dhcpd.conf.sample
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has been turned into an actual configuration; until recently it has never been necessary to do so.
My setup is a laptop computer receiving it's ip from a wlan access point.
If it is not these two files, -- what other (mal-)configuration could be read by dhcp?
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steveb
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Hmmm... Then the wlan access point sends some option your client does not understand. This is strange. It worked with older versions of the dhcp client?
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tarpman
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| Posted: Mon Sep 17, 2007 4:37 pm Post subject: |
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I get that warning too, but didn't figure it was worth worrying about. Like the OP, I have no dhclient configuration other than the default and whatever baselayout passes to it.
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gw
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| Posted: Tue Sep 18, 2007 9:36 am Post subject: |
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| steveb wrote: | Hmmm... Then the wlan access point sends some option your client does not understand. This is strange. It worked with older versions of the dhcp client?
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Access Point is a wlan router with no special options set.
Could it be that the new release of dhcp raised the syslog levels of its messages (perhaps from debug to info), so that this particular warning was always there, but never showed up in the logs. I didn't change anything in my setup, neither of the AP, nor of the client, so I guess the change must have occurred in dhcp.
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gw
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| Posted: Thu Sep 20, 2007 11:20 am Post subject: |
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| steveb wrote: | Hmmm... Then the wlan access point sends some option your client does not understand. This is strange. It worked with older versions of the dhcp client?
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In the meantime I tried with another access point (at work), and dhclient produces the same warning, so it is probable that a changement in the new version of dhcp triggered this warning.
But which?
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piroko
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I too have this problem, however I have all of a sudden found that I can associate with AP's but I don't get an IP with dhcpcd or dhclient. I'm running 2.6.22.6. I've tried both my broadcom and a known working atheros card. Both to no avail. I am very saddened by this 
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