Date: Sat, 26 Jun 1999 21:45:41 -0400 From: "John C. Place" <placej@ctcdist.com> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: DHCP Renew lease problem (FreeBSD 3.2R client, NT server) Message-ID: <19990626214541.A17732@ctcdist.com>
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Hi, Well I got my FreeBSD 3.2 subscription in the mail a couple of weeks ago and applied them to my two 3.1 boxes without a hitch. No earth shattering news there, they always upgrade cleenly (this is a good thing) Thanks a ton to the team for another great, and more importantly stable release. At any rate the reason why I am writing is when I was upgrading one of the boxes in question I was reading the NOTES and whats new files and I noticed that dhcp is in the regular distribution and I thought great. Enter a co-worker that wants to install FreeBSD at the office. So a couple hours later (we talked a lot) we had an installed box. Now at the office most of the machines are on dynamic IPs and not wanting to take a chance of "bumping" into the DHCP server (running on NT) I decided to take a stab at using dhclient. After I compiled in bpf support into the kernel ran "dhclient ed0" and vola we are on the network with a 36 hour lease. I thought to myself that was painless. So the next day the machine disappeared from the network "ifconfig -a" reports an IP of 0.0.0.0 . In messages dhclient was complaining about no open bpf devices so I looked in /dev and there was only a bpf0 so I did a MAKEDEV bpf4 and I got the rest of them. Ok I thought stupid mistake shame on me. Another day goes by and again it goes off line again. (at this point I am getting beat up by my co-workers that are windows fans) now the log complains about "device ed0 in use". So I am at loss what I did/am doing wrong. This will not renew a lease. I can slay and restart dhclient to fix this but this seems a little shaddy. Also another suggestion. Would it not be a good idea to have bpf support in the generic kernal?? This would help in the case of people that are evaluating it on DHCP networks this could leave a bad taste in their mouths early. Just a thought. FreeBSD 3.2R on a P5 133Mhz Thanks for reading John John C. Place Systems Specialist CTC Distribution Direct - York, PA placej@ctcdist.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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