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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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On Mon, Nov 13, 2006 at 09:25:47AM -0700, Steve Franks wrote:
> Hi,
>=20
> 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=3D"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

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