From owner-freebsd-stable Sun May 28 19:18: 7 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mail.gmx.net (pop.gmx.net [194.221.183.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 17C7237BA42 for ; Sun, 28 May 2000 19:17:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Gerhard.Sittig@gmx.net) Received: (qmail 10723 invoked by uid 0); 29 May 2000 02:17:49 -0000 Received: from p3e9e7a8c.dip.t-dialin.net (HELO speedy.gsinet) (62.158.122.140) by mail05.rzmi.gmx.net with SMTP; 29 May 2000 02:17:49 -0000 Received: (from sittig@localhost) by speedy.gsinet (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA29445 for freebsd-stable@freebsd.org; Sun, 28 May 2000 21:59:41 +0200 Date: Sun, 28 May 2000 21:59:41 +0200 From: Gerhard Sittig To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: dhclient messes up NIC during install Message-ID: <20000528215941.R2305@speedy.gsinet> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org References: <00ae01bfc8c0$777f9830$deff58c1@sos> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <00ae01bfc8c0$777f9830$deff58c1@sos>; from morten@seeberg.dk on Sun, May 28, 2000 at 05:19:13PM +0100 Organization: System Defenestrators Inc. Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, May 28, 2000 at 17:19 +0100, Morten Seeberg wrote: >=20 > [ ... DHCP client won't get a lease ... ] >=20 > Does this sound familiar to anyone? >=20 > I tried to get a lease from a Solaris DHCP server, which > doesn=B4t seem to work very well (works fine for Linux, Windows) IIRC the reply goes out to an address of 255.255.255.255 (since the client doesn't have an IP yet). There are servers (or clients?) which hear the question but aren't able to deliver the answer. Setting a route to host 255.255.255.255 through the server's NIC will help. But please don't ask me what to do on an multihomed DHCP server, I tend to set up a separate relay in these cases (which doesn't need any maintenance besides just starting the service). virtually yours 82D1 9B9C 01DC 4FB4 D7B4 61BE 3F49 4F77 72DE DA76 Gerhard Sittig true | mail -s "get gpg key" Gerhard.Sittig@gmx.net --=20 If you don't understand or are scared by any of the above ask your parents or an adult to help you. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message