Date: Sun, 24 Feb 2008 18:04:41 -0500 From: Ed Maste <emaste@freebsd.org> To: Andrea Venturoli <ml@netfence.it> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 6.3 DHCP and static_routes Message-ID: <20080224230441.GA12542@sandvine.com> In-Reply-To: <47C012EE.6090006@netfence.it> References: <47C012EE.6090006@netfence.it>
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On Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 01:34:54PM +0100, Andrea Venturoli wrote: > This used to work fine with 6.2, with the default route set up by the > DHCP servers. > > After I upgraded to 6.3, I get no default route anymore. This is the > relevant part of my logfile: As of FreeBSD 6.3 dhclient supports RFC3442, the classless static route option. If your DHCP server is including this option but not encoding the default route using the option you'll have no default route. Quoted from RFC 3442: > If the DHCP server returns both a Classless Static Routes option and > a Router option, the DHCP client MUST ignore the Router option. This is my guess as to what you're seeing. If this doesn't solve the issue for you, I'd suggest looking at the DHCP packets with e.g. wireshark. -Ed
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