From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Mar 15 21: 0:12 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from rover.village.org (rover.bsdimp.com [204.144.255.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2265737B405 for ; Fri, 15 Mar 2002 21:00:06 -0800 (PST) Received: from harmony.village.org (harmony.village.org [10.0.0.6]) by rover.village.org (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id g2G504i47211; Fri, 15 Mar 2002 22:00:05 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from imp@village.org) Received: from localhost (warner@rover2.village.org [10.0.0.1]) by harmony.village.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g2G504L62706; Fri, 15 Mar 2002 22:00:04 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from imp@village.org) Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2002 21:59:50 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <20020315.215950.84650258.imp@village.org> To: pete@ns.altadena.net Cc: jlp@softhome.net, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: if_wi with dhclient problem From: "M. Warner Losh" In-Reply-To: <200203150034.g2F0Ypc49439@ns.altadena.net> References: <20020314174748.C637F422E2@mail.flipdog.com> <200203150034.g2F0Ypc49439@ns.altadena.net> X-Mailer: Mew version 2.1 on Emacs 21.1 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message: <200203150034.g2F0Ypc49439@ns.altadena.net> Pete Carah writes: : > Just curious... you said you had an fxp0 in this machine. : > : > Try "ifconfig fxp0 down" before doing the "dhclient wi0". : : This has never been needed before last week. It apparently is needed : if I use IPX but I don't. And, adding an IP address (*any* IP addr) : to the wi0 before dhclient makes it work even without downing the : fxp. I think there is a (new) feature to if_wi that won't send any IP : packet if it doesn't have an address yet. : : (The other case where downing the fxp has been needed is if it had an : address and default route before inserting the wireless card. However : that isn't the case here either; I'm starting from a fresh boot). Since ifconfig fxp0 down fixes this problem for me, I doubt it is a wi driver problem. I suspect that it is an intended side effect of some more restrictive checking that's done in the network layer. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message