Date: Sun, 23 Jan 2005 21:32:50 +0100 From: Erik Norgaard <norgaard@locolomo.org> To: David Gerard <fun@thingy.apana.org.au> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: dhclient problems in 5.3-RELEASE Message-ID: <41F409F2.2090605@locolomo.org> In-Reply-To: <20050123183343.GD21544@thingy.apana.org.au> References: <20050123183343.GD21544@thingy.apana.org.au>
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David Gerard wrote: > This afternoon, I set up a new machine with 5.3-RELEASE. Started with three > 5.3-beta5 floppies, told it I wanted 5.3-RELEASE from a CD-R, installed > minimal base, man pages and ports, created two users. > > On reboot, I ran dhclient and it completely failed to get an IP address. > But I know the cable is good and the DHCP server is working, because I > booted the box in question into Windows and it grabbed an IP just fine. So > where do I start on diagnosing what's up with this installation? Try run dhclient with option "-d" to keep it in the foreground and see what errors appear. Do you have dhclient_enable="YES" in your rc.conf? If a dhclient is already running starting a new one has the special feature that the existing stops working. The new one sets ip to 0.0.0.0, then fails startup and exits. Cheers, Erik -- Ph: +34.666334818 web: http://www.locolomo.org S/MIME Certificate: http://www.locolomo.org/crt/2004071206.crt Subject ID: A9:76:7A:ED:06:95:2B:8D:48:97:CE:F2:3F:42:C8:F2:22:DE:4C:B9 Fingerprint: 4A:E8:63:38:46:F6:9A:5D:B4:DC:29:41:3F:62:D3:0A:73:25:67:C2
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