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Subject: Re: [nfe] DHCP failure on 8-stable
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On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 03:01:52AM -0400, enoch wrote:
> Recently it became extremely difficult to pass the DHCP discovery step
> on boot. Now I am using the buggy [nve] instead.
> 
> Can anyone help?
> 

Did you set synchronous_dhclient option in rc.conf? 

> Thank you, Enoch.
> 
> uname -a
> ~~~~~~~~
> FreeBSD dome 8.3-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 8.3-PRERELEASE #7: Thu Mar 29
> 14:37:00 EDT 2012     root@dome:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/DOME  amd64
> 
> nfe0 fails at DHCPDISCOVER.
> 
> ifconfig:
> 
> nfe0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
> 	options=82008<VLAN_MTU,WOL_MAGIC,LINKSTATE>
> 	ether 00:1f:bc:00:19:dc
> 	inet 0.0.0.0 netmask 0xff000000 broadcast 255.255.255.255
> 	media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX <full-duplex>)
> 	status: active
> 
> lspci:
> 
> 00:14.0 Bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP51 Ethernet Controller (rev a3)