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Date:      Sun, 11 Jun 2006 07:56:22 -0500
From:      "Conrad J. Sabatier" <conrads@cox.net>
To:        Etienne Robillard <granted14@yahoo.com>
Cc:        sam@freebsd.org, freebsd-current@freebsd.org, brooks@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: dhclient on  7-CURRENT refuse to cooperate  (no DHCPOFFER)
Message-ID:  <20060611075622.33e79364@serene.no-ip.org>
In-Reply-To: <20060610202242.33262.qmail@web55609.mail.re4.yahoo.com>
References:  <20060610202242.33262.qmail@web55609.mail.re4.yahoo.com>

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On Sat, 10 Jun 2006 16:22:42 -0400 (EDT), Etienne Robillard
<granted14@yahoo.com> wrote:

> I upgraded to a one-week old 7-CURRENT (HEAD) on a
> i386  
> type system and it seems like the OpenBSD dhclient app
> wont work for me...
> 
> It worked a while, but for some reasons, its
> impossible
> to get a lease. The symptoms are:
> - DHCPDISCOVER...
> - DHCPDISCOVER...
> and thats pretty much it. It doesnt pass that point,
> and  
> thus is can't proceed with DHCPOFFER nor with
> DHCPPACK...
> 
> Also, I tried running /sbin/dhclient from the OpenBSD
> cd, and it works! So, it looks to me that somehow
> there's something wrong here, but its really hard to
> make any further diagnosis. 
> 
> The  value  of ``kern.osreldate`` is: 700017.
> 
> Whether there's a patch or a work-around it would be
> really great to know how to apply--please let me know
> :-)
> 
> Thanks,
> Etienne

I experienced the same thing briefly on my amd64 box, at about the same
time as you.  A subsequent upgrade cleared it up.

-- 
Conrad J. Sabatier <conrads@cox.net> -- "In Unix veritas"



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