Re: DHCP Problems with 3com 3c905C Tornado

[Alan Cox]

> Obviously, something changed between 2.2.14 and more current
> kernels which broke pump.  I don't believe it's a driver change
> because it also affects the 3c90x driver.  I don't have a theory
> as to why this affects the 3com NICs though.  But I'm assuming
> that whatever broke pump also broke dhcpcd.

The classic thing that pump catches drivers with is that interface goes
up/down/up in rapid succession. That broke the acenic driver at one point 
too

> I note that with 3c59x in 2.4.0, pump-0.7.3 basically freezes up.
> It spits out a single bootp packet then goes to lunch.  I got
> bored waiting after ten minutes. So an upgrade is definitely needed.

strace would be interesting