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Date:      Thu, 25 Mar 2004 18:13:54 -0500
From:      Barney Wolff <barney@databus.com>
To:        Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu>
Cc:        current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Ok, who broke interface autoconfiguration?
Message-ID:  <20040325231354.GA13717@pit.databus.com>
In-Reply-To: <16483.24213.455973.704227@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu>
References:  <16483.20403.495385.471493@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> <Pine.GSO.4.10.10403251634560.27146-100000@pcnet5.pcnet.com> <16483.24213.455973.704227@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu>

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On Thu, Mar 25, 2004 at 05:35:01PM -0500, Andrew Gallatin wrote:
> 
> Daniel Eischen writes:
>  > 
>  > A co-worker was experiencing the same type of problem with em0
>  > and getting DHCP leases from a cable modem.  It was working
>  > then started having intermittent problems when he cvsup'd
>  > 2 or 3 weeks ago.  I just blamed it on the cable modem/company
>  > but perhaps there's something else at play?
> 
> I think so.  But I just spent the last 45 minutes trying
> to reproduce it and couldn't.  I'm sure the next time
> my wife boots her computer, though, it will fail.. :-(

I've had it happen a couple of times.  Dunno why.  rm of the leases
file in /var/db on the client fixed the symptom every time.

-- 
Barney Wolff         http://www.databus.com/bwresume.pdf
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