From owner-freebsd-current Tue May 7 17:23:48 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from fledge.watson.org (fledge.watson.org [204.156.12.50]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 43ADC37B401 for ; Tue, 7 May 2002 17:23:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from fledge.watson.org (fledge.pr.watson.org [192.0.2.3]) by fledge.watson.org (8.12.3/8.12.3) with SMTP id g480NNb5090450; Tue, 7 May 2002 20:23:23 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from robert@fledge.watson.org) Date: Tue, 7 May 2002 20:23:23 -0400 (EDT) From: Robert Watson X-Sender: robert@fledge.watson.org To: Forrest Aldrich Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 5.0-CURRENT dhcp configuration failure In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.2.20020506232828.00b95488@192.168.1.1> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 6 May 2002, Forrest Aldrich wrote: > The 5.0-CURRENT installation and configuration (cvsup/buildworld this > evening) does not correctly support dhcp configuration, even when > manually placed in rc.conf. > > The system comes up with the default name "Amnesiac". Is this a known > bug. This e-mail is a bit sparse on details. I believe there's at least one known bug relating to dhclient and removable interfaces (sometimes they don't work and dhclient silently exits), but you could start by telling us what kind of interface it is, how you configured the system, what tcpdump tells you about the DHCP exchange, etc. Robert N M Watson FreeBSD Core Team, TrustedBSD Project robert@fledge.watson.org NAI Labs, Safeport Network Services To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message