From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 18 11: 7:44 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail2.panix.com (mail2.panix.com [166.84.1.73]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7FE7037B402 for ; Mon, 18 Mar 2002 11:07:37 -0800 (PST) Received: from panix2.panix.com (panix2.panix.com [166.84.1.2]) by mail2.panix.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2C1198EDE for ; Mon, 18 Mar 2002 14:07:36 -0500 (EST) Received: (from jester@localhost) by panix2.panix.com (8.11.3nb1/8.8.8/PanixN1.0) id g2IJ7ax13565 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Mon, 18 Mar 2002 14:07:36 -0500 (EST) Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2002 14:07:36 -0500 From: Jesse Sheidlower To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Problem with dhclient Message-ID: <20020318190736.GA12518@panix.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.25i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I'm running FreeBSD on a laptop computer, and in general I'm pretty ignorant about networking issues. I'm having some difficulty using the dhclient program and was hoping someone could give me a hand. After booting, if I'm plugged into a network with a DHCP server on it, I can run dhclient and get assigned everything I need and be connected. However, if I move the computer from one DHCP network to another without shutting it down, I cannot seem to get new networking information. If I don't touch anything, the previous settings stay in place (whether I had previously been using dhclient, or had manually configured for a static network); when I try to run dhclient I get the message "ifconfig: icotl (SIOCAIFADDR): File exists" (and no other ouput), and running "ifconfig" shows no inet configuration, though I do get a "status: active" line under fxp0 (my Ethernet card). Bringing fxp0 down and up has no effect. I've run through a number of experiments, and all I can say is that rebooting the machine _always_ allows me to successfully configure using dhclient. I've looked through the various man pages for dhclient and its related scripts and conf files, and looked online for advice, and haven't seen anything useful. Any ideas? It's something of a pain to have to reboot the computer every time I move it. Thanks, Jesse Sheidlower To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message