From: Lucio De Re <lucio.dere@gmail.com>
To: 9fans <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Raw ethernet on 9vx
Date: Wed, 9 Dec 2020 21:03:58 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAJQ9t7je9mk4k=ssc8iK0iv7MeHFKeJ3hU7TGfZh9kH-cCGtLw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <16075277500.277Ca4.71564@composer.9fans.topicbox.com>
"ip link ..." can optionally set or select the ethernet address, which
is indeed 48 bits (6 bytes) long. I can see how that may be linked to
the DHCP failure, but only as an educated guess.
Lucio.
On 12/9/20, remywang@cs.washington.edu <remywang@cs.washington.edu> wrote:
> Sorry, I should have quoted the errors more carefully.
>
>> I wonder why it says DHCP failed instead of no success with DHCP.
>
> You are right, it does say "no success with DHCP".
>
>> If "0.0.0.0" is too short, the chances are "0.0.0.0/0" may be the valid
>> form.
>
> The exact error is "Invalid address length 4 - must be 6 bytes". I tried a
> few others including 0.0.0.0 but none of them worked. Not specifying this
> argument however doesn't trigger any complaints.
>
> Perhaps it's time to peruse the man pages for ip! But I have to put this
> down for now and will come back to it this weekend.
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Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-12-07 6:26 remywang
2020-12-07 23:38 ` Devon H. O'Dell
2020-12-08 5:55 ` remywang
2020-12-08 7:12 ` Devon H. O'Dell
2020-12-08 7:45 ` Lucio De Re
2020-12-08 9:06 ` Devon H. O'Dell
2020-12-08 9:20 ` David du Colombier
2020-12-08 13:00 ` hiro
2020-12-09 0:34 ` remywang
2020-12-09 7:00 ` remywang
2020-12-09 12:46 ` Stuart Morrow
2020-12-09 14:35 ` Lucio De Re
2020-12-09 15:29 ` remywang
2020-12-09 19:03 ` Lucio De Re [this message]
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