From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 12 11:53:31 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA18990 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 12 Aug 1998 11:53:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from cyclops.xtra.co.nz (cyclops.xtra.co.nz [202.27.184.96]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA18976 for ; Wed, 12 Aug 1998 11:53:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from junkmale@pop3.xtra.co.nz) Received: from wocker (210-55-210-87.ipnets.xtra.co.nz [210.55.210.87]) by cyclops.xtra.co.nz (8.9.1/8.9.1) with SMTP id GAA00260; Thu, 13 Aug 1998 06:52:55 +1200 (NZST) Message-Id: <199808121852.GAA00260@cyclops.xtra.co.nz> From: "Dan Langille" Organization: DVL Software Limited To: junkmale@xtra.co.nz Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1998 06:42:32 +1200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: DHCP configuration (was "changes to file are lost") Reply-to: junkmale@xtra.co.nz CC: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: <199808120750.TAA00549@cyclops.xtra.co.nz> References: X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.01b) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 12 Aug 98, at 19:50, Dan Langille wrote: > On 12 Aug 98, at 0:29, Doug White wrote: > > > > > On Tue, 11 Aug 1998, Dan Langille wrote: > > > > > On 10 Aug 98, at 16:26, Doug White wrote: > > > > > > > > This is interesting. I have ed0 (outside world) and ed1 (my > > > > > subnet) on this box. If I issue "dhclient ed0", ed1 is also > > > > > reconfigured and I must issue "ifconfig ed1 10.0.0.5 > > > > > 255.255.255.0" before comms work again . This appears to conflict > > > > > with the man pages on dhclient. Any ideas? > > > > > > > > If ed1 ever obtained a DHCP lease, the system may try to re-acquire > > > > it. Try quitting dhclient and removing /var/db/dhclient.leases. > > > > > > I did this. But no difference. When I invoke "dhclient ed0", then do > > > a "ifconfig -a", ed0 is as expected, but ed1 shows "inet 0.0.0.0 > > > netmast 0xff00000000". I then must configure ed1 manually. Bummer. > > > I'd like to know if this is expected behaviour or if I'm to blame. > > > > It shouldn't, IMHO. Pester ISC about it. > > OK. I will. > > I've just been to http://www.isc.org, but contact information, such as > mailing lists, are not obvious. I hate non-intuitive web sites. I've > found email addresses on the site but I'd prefer not to send it to the > chief architect. Then I found a list at > http://www.fugue.com/dhcp/lists/dhcp-list.cgi. I'll post a message there > and copy the reply back here. Messages received this morning indicate this is a known bug and fixes have been issued. When I verify that the code I've been sent has been fixed, I will post the code. -- Dan Langille DVL Software Limited http://www.dvl-software.com/freebsd : my [mis]adventures To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message