Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2001 15:12:33 +0100 From: Thorsten Kukuk <kukuk@suse.de> Message-ID: <20011212151233.A7344@suse.de> Subject: Re: [suse-sparc] DHCP server problems
On Wed, Dec 12, Mike Ladwig wrote:
> Hi. I wanted to experiment with the SuSE distro, and had the opportunity to
> put up a firewall on an old sparcstation 2, so I decided to try with the 7.3.
> I'm stuck on getting the dhcp server going; I installed the dhcp rpm, but
> when it fails on start and dumps messages to /var/log/message indicating it
> wants the kernel compiled with different options (CONFIG_PACKET and
> CONFIG_FILTER) than the stock kernel.
>
> Is this normal (shipping rpms that conflict with the stock kernel) for SuSE?
> I can rebuild the kernel (although loading a development system will be a
> tight squeeze), but I am thinking that there is a better way, and I simply
> don't know it because of my unfamilarity with SuSE.
I have a dhcp running here on my UltraSPARCs without problems. But
it could be that you need to recompile the 32bit SPARC kernel for
a SPARCstation 2 (I cannot test it in the moment). I had to disable
a lot of functions to make the kernel small enough to boot.
Thorsten
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