Date: Fri, 3 Feb 2006 12:43:25 +0100 From: Marcin Jessa <lists@yazzy.org> To: kalin@el.net Cc: stable@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: dhclient in 6.0 Message-ID: <20060203124325.5f512537.lists@yazzy.org> In-Reply-To: <59391.24.90.33.115.1138965018.squirrel@mail.el.net> References: <52993.24.90.33.115.1138913403.squirrel@mail.el.net> <59391.24.90.33.115.1138965018.squirrel@mail.el.net>
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On Fri, 3 Feb 2006 06:10:18 -0500 (EST) "make stuff up" <kalin@el.net> wrote: > hi all... again... > > i sent this message to general questions but nobody got excited > about it. > > i just installed 6 on my t30 laptop. brand new. when trying > dhclient i get: > > DHCPDISCOVER on fxp0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 5 > > this trys 6 times then this shows up: > > No DHCPOFFERS received. > No working leases in present database - sleeping. > > i run a tcpdump while requesting a lease and for every DHCPDISCOVER i > get this line: > 2. 999913 IP 0.0.0.0.68 > 255.255.255.255.67: UDP, length 300 > > then a line of: > > mac.number > mac.number, Unknown Ethertype (0xb20e), length 61: > > i'm typing this because i can't get the machine on line... > > restarted tha laptop many times and the dhcp server too. the dhclinet > on another older laptop works fine with the same server... > > i really need this solved.... soon... never seen it before... there > is nothing much on line about it. the same t30 laptop was working > fine with 5.4... There was a change in DHCP between FreeBSD 5.x and 6. I noticed the same behaviour with a couple of hw broadband routers. AFAIR this was also reported back to the list, still no fix was provided. Cheers, Marcin. PS. questions@freebsd.org and freebsd-questions@freebsd.org is the same list. The first one has this name becouse of compatibility with former setup of mailing list names.
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