From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 2 8:31:59 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from skylinekhidin.painless-computing.com (www.painless-computing.com [204.117.218.241]) by builder.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 585BF4070 for ; Wed, 2 Feb 2000 08:31:56 -0800 (PST) Received: by www.painless-computing.com with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) id ; Wed, 2 Feb 2000 11:29:24 -0500 Message-ID: <00FECC197395D311B57A005004D90F0D02162C@www.painless-computing.com> From: "Peter L. Thomas" To: "'questions@freebsd.org'" Subject: de0 OACTIVE, passes no traffic Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2000 11:29:21 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="----_=_NextPart_000_01BF6D9A.AA1B1FC0" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG This message is in MIME format. Since your mail reader does not understand this format, some or all of this message may not be legible. ------_=_NextPart_000_01BF6D9A.AA1B1FC0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" ----- # uname -a FreeBSD firewall.painless-computing.com 3.4-RELEASE FreeBSD 3.4-RELEASE #0: Wed Feb 2 11:55:16 GMT 2000 root@firewall.painless-computing.com:/usr/src/sys/compile/FIREWALL i386 ----- firewall# ifconfig de0 de0: flags=8c47 mtu 1500 inet 0.0.0.0 netmask 0xff000000 broadcast 255.255.255.255 ether 00:e0:29:11:0a:88 media: autoselect (10baseT/UTP) status: active supported media: autoselect 10base5/AUI 10base2/BNC 10baseT/UTP 10baseT/UTP ----- firewall# dhclient de0 Listening on BPF/de0/00:e0:29:11:0a:88 Sending on BPF/de0/00:e0:29:11:0a:88 Sending on Socket/fallback/fallback-net DHCPDISCOVER on de0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 7 DHCPDISCOVER on de0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 11 ^C ----- My other NIC, when I swap ethernet segments, pulls a DHCP offer from the server using the same cable and cable modem. It's config information (currently configured for the private net): ----- firewall# ifconfig tl0 tl0: flags=8843 mtu 1500 inet 192.168.0.254 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.0.255 ether 00:80:5f:dd:e6:0f media: autoselect (10baseT/UTP ) supported media: 100baseTX 100baseTX 100base TX 10baseT/UTP autoselect 10base5/AUI 10baseT/UTP 10baseT/UTP ----- The "OACTIVE" flag on the de0 interface seems to have something to do with it according to my net research--but noone seems to have a cure. --Pete ----- Pete Thomas, MCSE Painless Computing, Inc. http://www.painless-computing.com ------_=_NextPart_000_01BF6D9A.AA1B1FC0 Content-Type: application/octet-stream; name="Peter Thomas (E-mail).vcf" Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="Peter Thomas (E-mail).vcf" BEGIN:VCARD VERSION:2.1 N:Thomas;Peter FN:Peter Thomas (E-mail) ORG:Painless Computing, Inc. TITLE:President TEL;WORK;VOICE:(703) 793-5292 TEL;CELL;VOICE:(703) 615-7806 TEL;PAGER;VOICE:(888) 502-6599 TEL;WORK;FAX:(703) 713-3883 ADR;WORK:;;2430 Corn Crib Ct;Herndon;VA;20171-3071 LABEL;WORK;ENCODING=QUOTED-PRINTABLE:2430 Corn Crib Ct=0D=0AHerndon, VA 20171-3071 EMAIL;PREF;EX:/o=Painless Computing, Inc./ou=PAINLESS/cn=Recipients/cn=PETE REV:19990306T181557Z END:VCARD ------_=_NextPart_000_01BF6D9A.AA1B1FC0-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message