From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Dec 15 11:08:53 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0F51316A4D0 for ; Mon, 15 Dec 2003 11:08:53 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtpzilla2.xs4all.nl (smtpzilla2.xs4all.nl [194.109.127.138]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3C36443D48 for ; Mon, 15 Dec 2003 11:07:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl) Received: from freebie.xs4all.nl (freebie.xs4all.nl [213.84.32.253]) by smtpzilla2.xs4all.nl (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id hBFJ6qX3083609; Mon, 15 Dec 2003 20:06:52 +0100 (CET) Received: from freebie.xs4all.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by freebie.xs4all.nl (8.12.10/8.12.9) with ESMTP id hBFJ6qhj013389; Mon, 15 Dec 2003 20:06:52 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl) Received: (from wkb@localhost) by freebie.xs4all.nl (8.12.10/8.12.9/Submit) id hBFJ6qeW013388; Mon, 15 Dec 2003 20:06:52 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from wkb) Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2003 20:06:52 +0100 From: Wilko Bulte To: Hugh Brown Message-ID: <20031215190652.GA13373@freebie.xs4all.nl> References: <20031213122314.GV13101@mindwipe.org> <20031214001656.GA12744@mebtel.net> <20031215181016.GN55744@robson.dyaptive.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20031215181016.GN55744@robson.dyaptive.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-OS: FreeBSD 4.9-STABLE X-PGP: finger wilko@freebsd.org cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org cc: Marcus Larsson Subject: Re: sk0 and dhclient X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2003 19:08:53 -0000 On Mon, Dec 15, 2003 at 10:10:20AM -0800, Hugh Brown wrote: > Derek Tattersall wrote: > > * Marcus Larsson (kore@mindwipe.org) [031213 19:04]: > > > I have a 3com 940 ethernet card and I have ifconfig_sk0="DHCP" > > > in my rc.conf. When I boot my machine it hangs on dhclient but > > > after a certain amount of time dhclient gives up and the boot > > > process continues. When I login and run 'dhclient sk0' it > > > works without any hazzle but I can't get an IP addy during > > > bootup. Now is anyone else experiencing this? > > > > iBecause I can get it to work by just restarting dhclient after it time > > out, I figured I would try to earn my kernel hacker merit badge and > > figure out what's going on. No joy so far. It's got to be some sort of > > timing problem but I'm at a loss. Anybody got a clue to offer? > > There's a report of this problem from August [1]. > > I've got a similar problem with the 3c940 on an Asus P4P800 > motherboard: it will not pick up an IPv6 address using rtsol *unless* > the interface is put into promiscuous mode ("tcpdump -n -i sk0" works > well). > > Wilko Bulte wrote [2] that there are pending patches that deal with > promiscuous mode; I'm hoping that these will fix this problem. I can send the patches that were sent to me if people want to test them, just lemme know. -- | / o / /_ _ |/|/ / / /( (_) Bulte wilko@FreeBSD.org