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Failed to send 300 byte long packet over fallback interface

1.0 Error While configuring a server, the following errors were noted in the logfiles. send_packet: Operation not permitted dhclient.c:2386: Failed to send 300 byte long packet over fallback interface. DHCPREQUEST on eth0 port 67 (xid=0x1580bfd0) … 2.0 Solution There are two possibilities depending upon whether DHCP is being used for getting the network IP address …

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Alarm, sleep and High Resolution Timers

Alarm system call The alarm system call arranges for the SIGALRM signal to be sent to the calling process after s seconds. #include <unistd.h> unsigned int alarm (unsigned int s); Any previously set alarm is cleared. And if s is 0, no alarm is set. So, passing 0 as argument to alarm clears any previously …

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