From owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Mar 30 14:41:03 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F12F11065675 for ; Fri, 30 Mar 2012 14:41:03 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-net@m.gmane.org) Received: from plane.gmane.org (plane.gmane.org [80.91.229.3]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A933B8FC18 for ; Fri, 30 Mar 2012 14:41:03 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1SDd0Z-0002pr-8Q for freebsd-net@freebsd.org; Fri, 30 Mar 2012 16:40:55 +0200 Received: from pool-108-35-132-213.nwrknj.fios.verizon.net ([108.35.132.213]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 30 Mar 2012 16:40:55 +0200 Received: from ixew by pool-108-35-132-213.nwrknj.fios.verizon.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 30 Mar 2012 16:40:55 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org From: enoch Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2012 10:40:44 -0400 Lines: 49 Message-ID: <4F75C5EC.6090303@hotmail.com> References: <20120330233819.GC7325@michelle.cdnetworks.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: pool-108-35-132-213.nwrknj.fios.verizon.net User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:10.0.3) Gecko/20120314 Thunderbird/10.0.3 In-Reply-To: <20120330233819.GC7325@michelle.cdnetworks.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.4 Subject: Re: [nfe] DHCP failure on 8-stable X-BeenThere: freebsd-net@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Networking and TCP/IP with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2012 14:41:04 -0000 On 03/30/2012 19:38, YongHyeon PYUN wrote: > On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 03:01:52AM -0400, enoch wrote: >> Recently it became extremely difficult to pass the DHCP discovery step >> on boot. Now I am using the buggy [nve] instead. >> >> Can anyone help? >> > > Did you set synchronous_dhclient option in rc.conf? > Yes: ifconfig_nfe0="SYNCDHCP" I guess [nfe] is undergoing gradual devel changes of some sort as before it had some chance of reporting "empty headers" on initial ifconfig and refusing to work. Sorry, I should have reported when encountering the first problems rather than solve by reboot. In any case, the alternative [nve] should be marked "dangerous" as under heavy load it tends to crash the system. Thanks, Enoch. >> >> uname -a >> ~~~~~~~~ >> FreeBSD dome 8.3-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 8.3-PRERELEASE #7: Thu Mar 29 >> 14:37:00 EDT 2012 root@dome:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/DOME amd64 >> >> nfe0 fails at DHCPDISCOVER. >> >> ifconfig: >> >> nfe0: flags=8843 metric 0 mtu 1500 >> options=82008 >> ether 00:1f:bc:00:19:dc >> inet 0.0.0.0 netmask 0xff000000 broadcast 255.255.255.255 >> media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX ) >> status: active >> >> lspci: >> >> 00:14.0 Bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP51 Ethernet Controller (rev a3) > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-net@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-net > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-net-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >