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Date:      Wed, 24 Jun 1998 21:18:19 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
To:        John <jbarbee@singular.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Resolved: llinfo... source of many problems
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980624211503.29163l-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <35903F7D.28D3BC06@singular.com>

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On Tue, 23 Jun 1998, John wrote:

> Originally, within /etc/rc, I placed the call to the dhcp client before
> all the other network stuff was set up.  This time I removed de0 from
> rc.conf and placed the dhcp client after all the other network stuff was
> done.  Now apache responds right away and I don't get the llinfo error
> anymore.  This seems more like a bandage than a solution.

IOt's correct .. if you read the dhclinet docs you're not supposed to
configure the ethernet interface beforehand.

> Now, route complains that network is unreachable since de0 hasn't been
> configured yet.  In fact, default router and other settings probably
> don't happen until the dhcp client sets them up.  All indications show
> that route is failing to set the routes.

Make sure you're running that route add after the dhclient run completes.
I thought dhclient runds the `route add default xx' automatically.


Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major


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