From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Apr 8 10:21:35 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA15815 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Wed, 8 Apr 1998 10:21:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail.numachi.com (numachi.numachi.com [198.175.254.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id KAA15764 for ; Wed, 8 Apr 1998 10:21:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from reichert@numachi.numachi.COM) Received: (qmail 27530 invoked by uid 1001); 8 Apr 1998 17:19:27 -0000 Message-ID: <19980408131927.45707@numachi.com> Date: Wed, 8 Apr 1998 13:19:27 -0400 From: Brian Reichert To: Kartik Narayan Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: dhcpc and ed3 interface References: <19980407224839.64875@numachi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.88 In-Reply-To: ; from Kartik Narayan on Wed, Apr 08, 1998 at 11:35:49AM +0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Apr 08, 1998 at 11:35:49AM +0800, Kartik Narayan wrote: > Have you built enough bpf devices in /dev? I had a similar problem and > it was (embarassingly) pointed out to me that I did not have enough of > them. Make bpf0 through 4 and try. Well, the kernel line says '4', so I made bpf[0-3]. Should I have build up to 4? Even still, it wasn't bitching about not being able to open a bpf device, it was claiming my ed3 interface 'wan't configured for dhcp'. > Alternatively you can try using the > isc-dhcp client. (www.isc.org). Works quite well for me, and yes, I'm > using a NE2000 clone too... Yours is the second suggestion to try the isc-dhcp client. I had gotten the impression from the mail archives that the wide-dhcpc client was more solid. Does the general public (ie. us :0 have a good 'feel' for which of these clients is presently more stable? > regards > ____________________________________________________________________________ > Kartik Narayan kartik@letterbox.com > National University of Singapore http://googoo.dyn.ml.org -- Brian Reichert reichert@numachi.com 37 Crystal Ave. #303 Current daytime number: (617)-873-4337 Derry NH 03038-1713 USA Intel architecture: the left-hand path To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message