confusion of installation process

[Ray Van Dolson]

On Thu, Jan 11, 2007 at 04:02:08PM -0500, Klaus Steden wrote:
> I could have sworn Ray Van Dolson said this Thu, Jan 11, 2007 at 12:59:13PM -0800 ...
> > I assume you are referring to nicdelay and linksleep?  Are there any others?
> > I've been trying to get this to work on a RHEL4 U4 system on a switch with
> > Spanning Tree enabled.  Even with long delays I am unable to get pump to get
> > an IP address.  I don't understand how, when the system is installed, ISC's
> > dhcp client is able to get an IP no problem (after a delay of course).
> > 
> I've come to the conclusion that 'pump' sucks, and should be replaced with the
> ISC's dhcp client, if possible ... or made more robust.

Here here.  Everyone should pile in on this RH bug:

  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=189795

Ray