Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2006 19:52:38 -0600 From: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> To: Steve Franks <stevefranks@ieee.org> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: dhcp only works once on wifi card Message-ID: <20061114015238.GA41883@lor.one-eyed-alien.net> In-Reply-To: <539c60b90611130825x3219cdf2k1f355e2dfa7a9b5a@mail.gmail.com> References: <539c60b90611130825x3219cdf2k1f355e2dfa7a9b5a@mail.gmail.com>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Mon, Nov 13, 2006 at 09:25:47AM -0700, Steve Franks wrote: > Hi, > > Have a wifi card that dhcp's fine on startup, however, every time the > AP drops off (say 15-45min), it loses it's ip adress, and never asks > for a new one. Adapter has "blah blah blah DCHP" in it's ifconfig > entry in rc.conf, what am I missing? Do I need to place > dhclient_enable="YES" in rc.conf or something like that? The man page > for dhclient seems to assume it's always run from the command line, > afaik, although the -b switch would indicate otherwise... This is probably a bug in the driver's link state handling. What type of device is it? -- Brooks [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFFWSFmXY6L6fI4GtQRAhleAJ4oX9jZWcvAloy+pM1zKEa0Z68/kQCgtzjX 0Uh5mAxcnrG7VnLzCCb2aEw= =HDe0 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----help
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