From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Dec 5 18:21:27 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2ED3116A501 for ; Tue, 5 Dec 2006 18:21:27 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bahamasfranks@gmail.com) Received: from nf-out-0910.google.com (nf-out-0910.google.com [64.233.182.191]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BD11743CC9 for ; Tue, 5 Dec 2006 18:20:39 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from bahamasfranks@gmail.com) Received: by nf-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id x37so282864nfc for ; Tue, 05 Dec 2006 10:21:18 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:sender:to:subject:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:x-google-sender-auth; b=MH5bcy/QXLXv0KezCrKS5YHvNU440qSadnuKpI6bAd6g17f3Dzs/yd95fcPhL41kxkRQE6GUPbnUr6z81QOmtukMyfHjEXJkGjrBMLK1FWF/sqEOBBulkeKkVy6oySBJCscApaZOXgag8D65rKP93KysMQIdrIB6s90E4G0BbX8= Received: by 10.82.179.9 with SMTP id b9mr1784845buf.1165342878325; Tue, 05 Dec 2006 10:21:18 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.82.175.3 with HTTP; Tue, 5 Dec 2006 10:21:18 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <539c60b90612051021m27722ccam791a72cf7c5e5487@mail.gmail.com> Date: Tue, 5 Dec 2006 11:21:18 -0700 From: "Steve Franks" Sender: bahamasfranks@gmail.com To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline X-Google-Sender-Auth: b4464b4bb389da9c Subject: wifi & dhcp X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 05 Dec 2006 18:21:27 -0000 Ok, we're losin our minds here. Me and a friend just bought up no less than 4 boxes (server, 2 laptops, and a net-device) in about 2 weeks on stable 6.1. My first foray into bsd since '95, and I'm way-pleased. One little problem: every one of them loses it's connection (aka ip) when the wifi goes out and comes back, forcing us to 'dhclient xx0' incessantly. Note we're talking a belkin ath, an ativa ath, a wavelan wi and a linksys wi, not all the same card or even driver. Someone on current said, 'it's probably a problem with the driver's link-state handling' - whatever. Oh, yeah, we've got one set on a dlink ap, and the other on a linksys. Both are running wep for legacy reasons, which I have a sinking feeling may be a contributing factor. Ideas? thanks, Steve -- Steve Franks, KE7BTE Staff Engineer La Palma Devices, LLC http://www.lapalmadevices.com (520) 312-0089