From owner-freebsd-mobile Sat Mar 22 12:40:33 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2C6B337B401 for ; Sat, 22 Mar 2003 12:40:32 -0800 (PST) Received: from bast.unixathome.org (bast.unixathome.org [66.11.174.150]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 676ED43F85 for ; Sat, 22 Mar 2003 12:40:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dan@langille.org) Received: from wocker (wocker.unixathome.org [192.168.0.99]) by bast.unixathome.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 903B33D28 for ; Sat, 22 Mar 2003 15:40:30 -0500 (EST) From: "Dan Langille" To: mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2003 15:40:30 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: dhclient gives "no route to host" upon startup Message-ID: <3E7C83EE.9728.151A4A7B@localhost> X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Windows (v4.02a) Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-description: Mail message body Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I have a FreeBSD 4.8-PRERELEASE laptop upon which dhclient doesn't get an IP address during start up. After logging in, a tail -F /var/log/messages will show this: Mar 22 15:05:38 laptop login: ROOT LOGIN (root) ON ttyv0 Mar 22 15:09:58 laptop dhclient: send_packet: No route to host Mar 22 15:10:34 laptop last message repeated 3 times Mar 22 15:12:36 laptop last message repeated 8 times If I kill dhclient, and run it manually, it gets an IP address: # /sbin/dhclient -pf /var/run/dhclient.wi0.pid wi0 Mar 22 15:12:58 laptop dhclient: New Network Number: 192.168.0.0 Mar 22 15:12:58 laptop dhclient: New Broadcast Address: 192.168.0.255 Mar 22 15:12:58 laptop dhclient: New IP Address (wi0): 192.168.0.34 Mar 22 15:12:58 laptop dhclient: New Subnet Mask (wi0): 255.255.255.0 Mar 22 15:12:58 laptop dhclient: New Broadcast Address (wi0): 192.168.0.255 Mar 22 15:12:58 laptop dhclient: New Routers: 192.168.0.21 The above test was with a wireless Orinoco card. The problem occurs with a wired Linksys NIC. Any ideas? -- Dan Langille : http://www.langille.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message