From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jun 15 16:22:16 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from smtp4.erols.com (smtp4.erols.com [207.172.3.237]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1560114F2A for ; Tue, 15 Jun 1999 16:22:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jobaldwi@vt.edu) Received: from john.baldwin.cx (207-172-143-242.s51.as3.hgt.md.dialup.rcn.com [207.172.143.242]) by smtp4.erols.com (8.8.8/smtp-v1) with ESMTP id TAA15620; Tue, 15 Jun 1999 19:21:48 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <199906152321.TAA15620@smtp4.erols.com> X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Date: Tue, 15 Jun 1999 19:21:48 -0400 (EDT) From: John Baldwin To: "Daniel J. O'Connor" Subject: RE: DHCP, arp and de0 Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 13-Jun-99 Daniel J. O'Connor wrote: > Hi, > I have tried getting my system to use DHCP on my local network, but I'm > having > trouble. > If I don't use DHCP everything works fine, but if I use DHCP I get the > following messages appearing in my log file when I use ESD, and try and ping > my LAN IP. > Jun 13 17:35:21 guppy /kernel: arplookup 127.0.0.1 failed: could not allocate > llinfo > Jun 13 17:35:21 guppy /kernel: arpresolve: can't allocate llinfo for > 127.0.0.1rt > > I notcied also that the arp table doesn't have an entry for my IP when I use > DHCP. When I don't use DHCP I have a line like > guppy.dons.net.au (203.31.81.9) at 0:80:ad:16:77:3e permanent [ethernet] > > in the arp table, but its not there when I use DHCP. I can't add it by hand > either. > > I am running -current as of this morning (ie 12 Jun 10:30am GMT), and I have > a > Digital 21140 base 10/100 card. It has 2 ports, one for 10 and the other for > 100 mbits (lame). Personally I suspect the driver since I've had other > strangness with arp and this card when I try and change media, but I could be > way off base. > > Any ideas? Are you using the built-in dhcp client (/sbin/dhclient)? If so, what does the output look like during boot up? What does 'ifconfig -i de0' show? Also, do you have a lease in /var/db/dhcp.leases? --- John Baldwin -- http://members.freedomnet.com/~jbaldwin/ PGP Key: http://members.freedomnet.com/~jbaldwin/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message