Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2014 14:38:49 -0600 From: Alan Somers <asomers@freebsd.org> To: Robert Huff <roberthuff@rcn.com> Cc: "net@freebsd.org" <net@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: questions about (system) dhclient Message-ID: <CAOtMX2jXPiUmBvC3GHfF3G05uBGELQ8_fvUOLCL483juEy_Vqg@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <5339D0A0.1030903@rcn.com> References: <5339D0A0.1030903@rcn.com>
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On Mon, Mar 31, 2014 at 2:31 PM, Robert Huff <roberthuff@rcn.com> wrote: > [Please keep me CC'd as I am not subscribed. Thanks.] > > I have a system, running r263263, where dhclient is misbehaving. > (Yes - this is CURRENT, but I have no reason to believe this inherently a > version-specific issue. I am also on current@, and nothing like this has > been reported.) > The system has an Intel Pro/1000 ethernet card, "em0", connected to > a Arris CM820 cable modem. > This is the relevant portion of dhclient.conf: > > http://users.rcn.com/dhclient.conf File not found > > Upon execution, I get this: > > http://users.rcn.com/roberthuff/dhcp_offer You're getting on offer on a completely different network than that where the dhcp server resides. That's weird. Do you expect that to happen? > > but then: > > http://users.rcn.com/roberthuff/dhc_ifconfig > > "netstat -r" also shows no gateway. > > However, when I look at dhclient.leases: > > http://users.rcn.com/roberthuff/dhclient.leases.em0 This file is empty. Is it supposed to be? > > I get the machine working by configuring the relevant data manually. > > I have no idea where to start trying to figure this out; this have > "just worked" for so long. > Help please? Try running "service netif stop em0" to stop the background dhclient process. Then run "dhclient -d" to force it to remain in the foreground, and see if it prints any useful debugging info. It might also be useful to run "tcpdump -i em0 host 10.23.192.1" in another terminal. > > Respectfully, > > Robert Huff > -Alan
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