Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2003 16:52:58 -0500 From: Derek Tattersall <dlt@mebtel.net> To: Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: sk0 and dhclient Message-ID: <20031215215258.GA25570@mebtel.net> In-Reply-To: <20031215190652.GA13373@freebie.xs4all.nl> References: <20031213122314.GV13101@mindwipe.org> <20031214001656.GA12744@mebtel.net> <20031215181016.GN55744@robson.dyaptive.com> <20031215190652.GA13373@freebie.xs4all.nl>
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* Wilko Bulte (wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl) [031215 16:48]:
> Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2003 20:06:52 +0100
> From: Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl>
> To: Hugh Brown <hbrown@dyaptive.com>
> Message-ID: <20031215190652.GA13373@freebie.xs4all.nl>
> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i
> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org
> Cc: Marcus Larsson <kore@mindwipe.org>
> Subject: Re: sk0 and dhclient
>
> On Mon, Dec 15, 2003 at 10:10:20AM -0800, Hugh Brown wrote:
> > Derek Tattersall wrote:
> > > * Marcus Larsson (kore@mindwipe.org) [031213 19:04]:
> > > > I have a 3com 940 ethernet card and I have ifconfig_sk0="DHCP"
> > > > in my rc.conf. When I boot my machine it hangs on dhclient but
> > > > after a certain amount of time dhclient gives up and the boot
> > > > process continues. When I login and run 'dhclient sk0' it
> > > > works without any hazzle but I can't get an IP addy during
> > > > bootup. Now is anyone else experiencing this?
> > >
> > > iBecause I can get it to work by just restarting dhclient after it time
> > > out, I figured I would try to earn my kernel hacker merit badge and
> > > figure out what's going on. No joy so far. It's got to be some sort of
> > > timing problem but I'm at a loss. Anybody got a clue to offer?
> >
> > There's a report of this problem from August [1].
> >
> > I've got a similar problem with the 3c940 on an Asus P4P800
> > motherboard: it will not pick up an IPv6 address using rtsol *unless*
> > the interface is put into promiscuous mode ("tcpdump -n -i sk0" works
> > well).
> >
> > Wilko Bulte wrote [2] that there are pending patches that deal with
> > promiscuous mode; I'm hoping that these will fix this problem.
>
> I can send the patches that were sent to me if people want to test them,
> just lemme know.
I'll give them a try if you can either send them to the above address or
pass a web/ftp site where I can pick them up. Thanks a bunch.
>
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