[Bug 1292055] [NEW] dhclient fail on InfiniBand HW

[Eyal Perry]

Public bug reported:

Issue description:
when running dhclient on IP-over-Infiniband interface the process immediately fails - no packets are sent at all.
Reproduction:
# dhclient -v ib0
Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client 4.2.4
Copyright 2004-2012 Internet Systems Consortium.
All rights reserved.
For info, please visit https://www.isc.org/software/dhcp/

Listening on LPF/ib0/
Sending on   LPF/ib0/
Sending on   Socket/fallback
xid: warning: no netdev with useable HWADDR found for seed's uniqueness enforcement
xid: rand init seed (0xd42bc663) built using gethostid
stgraber: host-name
dhcp-client-identifier must be specified for InfiniBand

Additional Host info:
# lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu Trusty Tahr (development branch)
Release: 14.04
# apt-cache policy isc-dhcp-client
isc-dhcp-client:
  Installed: 4.2.4-7ubuntu8
  Candidate: 4.2.4-7ubuntu8
  Version table:
 *** 4.2.4-7ubuntu8 0
        500 http://il.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

** Affects: isc-dhcp (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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Title:
  dhclient fail on InfiniBand HW

Status in “isc-dhcp” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  Issue description:
  when running dhclient on IP-over-Infiniband interface the process immediately fails - no packets are sent at all.
  Reproduction:
  # dhclient -v ib0
  Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client 4.2.4
  Copyright 2004-2012 Internet Systems Consortium.
  All rights reserved.
  For info, please visit https://www.isc.org/software/dhcp/

  Listening on LPF/ib0/
  Sending on   LPF/ib0/
  Sending on   Socket/fallback
  xid: warning: no netdev with useable HWADDR found for seed's uniqueness enforcement
  xid: rand init seed (0xd42bc663) built using gethostid
  stgraber: host-name
  dhcp-client-identifier must be specified for InfiniBand

  Additional Host info:
  # lsb_release -rd
  Description: Ubuntu Trusty Tahr (development branch)
  Release: 14.04
  # apt-cache policy isc-dhcp-client
  isc-dhcp-client:
    Installed: 4.2.4-7ubuntu8
    Candidate: 4.2.4-7ubuntu8
    Version table:
   *** 4.2.4-7ubuntu8 0
          500 http://il.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty/main amd64 Packages
          100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

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