From owner-freebsd-current Thu Dec 13 10: 4:21 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from savvyworld.net (adsl-64-173-182-158.dsl.mtry01.pacbell.net [64.173.182.158]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D50EE37B416 for ; Thu, 13 Dec 2001 10:04:10 -0800 (PST) Received: (from root@localhost) by savvyworld.net (8.11.6/8.11.4) id fBDI42P97784; Thu, 13 Dec 2001 10:04:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from eculp@EnContacto.Net) Received: from 64.173.182.155 ( [64.173.182.155]) as user eculp@EnContacto.Net by Mail.SavvyWorld.Net with HTTP; Thu, 13 Dec 2001 10:04:01 -0800 Message-ID: <1008266641.3c18ed9202dfb@Mail.SavvyWorld.Net> Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2001 10:04:02 -0800 From: Edwin Culp To: David Wolfskill Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: dhclient References: <200112131525.fBDFPKO60377@bunrab.catwhisker.org> In-Reply-To: <200112131525.fBDFPKO60377@bunrab.catwhisker.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: Internet Messaging Program (IMP) 4.0-cvs X-Originating-IP: 64.173.182.155 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Thanks, David. I'm going to have to go through the whole troubleshooting process. Both the server and the client, my laptop, are running current and to make it worse I did a portupgrade -Rria on both since I used dhcp the last time. At least I know that it should work:-) Thanks, again. ed Quoting David Wolfskill : > >Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2001 06:15:32 -0800 > >From: Edwin Culp > > >Is anyone using dhclient successfully with Current of the last week or so? > > Sure; hadn't noticed any problems with it. > > >I don't use it all the time but I have been trying for the last couple of > >days without success. > > >It accesses the server and changes the interface ip to 0.0.0.0 netmask > >255.255.255.255. > > Odd. Looks like symptom of a failure to get a lease (to me, though I'm > not an expert in DHCP). Do you have available IP addresses to hand out? > Are you sure the NIC is operating properly? (E.g., can you put it in > promiscuous mode & see traffic on the net, via tcpdump or ethereal?) > > (I've been tracking both -STABLE & -CURRENT daily(*), both on my laptop > (which is a DHCP client) and my build machine (which isn't) for several > months now....) > > * OK; modulo the occasional breakage. But that's been pretty rare -- > even in -CURRENT, for me. > > Cheers, > david > -- > David H. Wolfskill david@catwhisker.org > I believe it would be irresponsible (and thus, unethical) for me to advise, > recommend, or support the use of any product that is or depends on any > Microsoft product for any purpose other than personal amusement. > --- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message