Date: Sun, 23 Jan 2005 21:02:26 +0100 From: Hexren <me@hexren.net> To: David Gerard <fun@thingy.apana.org.au> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: dhclient problems in 5.3-RELEASE Message-ID: <11418268078.20050123210226@hexren.net> In-Reply-To: <20050123183343.GD21544@thingy.apana.org.au> References: <20050123183343.GD21544@thingy.apana.org.au>
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DG> This afternoon, I set up a new machine with 5.3-RELEASE. Started with three DG> 5.3-beta5 floppies, told it I wanted 5.3-RELEASE from a CD-R, installed DG> minimal base, man pages and ports, created two users. DG> On reboot, I ran dhclient and it completely failed to get an IP address. DG> But I know the cable is good and the DHCP server is working, because I DG> booted the box in question into Windows and it grabbed an IP just fine. So DG> where do I start on diagnosing what's up with this installation? DG> - d. DG> _______________________________________________ DG> freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list DG> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions DG> To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" --------------------------------------------- Start by sniffing the network traffic on the DHCP Server machine while you request an address. See where it differs from the usual. Maybe the problem becomes obvious then. :) Hexren
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