Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2001 20:20:21 +1000 From: Edwin Groothuis <edwin@mavetju.org> To: Rob Zietlow <zietlow@berbee.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: dhclient not getting an IP address Message-ID: <20011011202021.G2865@k7.mavetju.org> In-Reply-To: <200110111014.f9BAEoZ00822@berbee.com>; from zietlow@berbee.com on Thu, Oct 11, 2001 at 05:14:43AM -0500 References: <200110111014.f9BAEoZ00822@berbee.com>
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On Thu, Oct 11, 2001 at 05:14:43AM -0500, Rob Zietlow wrote: > Whenever I switch networks (home and work) I cannot use dhclient to retrieve > an IP address for the respected network. I always have to reboot the machine > and then it gets one. I have tried dhclient and dhclient fxp0 in the > command line. This releases my IP address changing it to 0.0.0.0, but > doesn't renew and get me my new IP (172.30.X.X or 192.168.X.X, depending on > my location) I have had this issue with 4.3 and 4.4 Do I need anything > special in my /etc/dhclient.conf? Any Hints, comments, suggestions? Make sure dhclient is dead, throw away /var/db/dhclient.leases and try again. If this doesn't help, please send some tcpdump output. Edwin -- Edwin Groothuis | Personal website: http://www.MavEtJu.org edwin@mavetju.org | Interested in MUDs? Visit Fatal Dimensions: ------------------+ http://www.FatalDimensions.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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