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Date:      Fri, 13 Jul 2018 15:56:00 +0000
From:      bugzilla-noreply@freebsd.org
To:        net@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   [Bug 229727] On install, Broadcom chipset doesn't receive DHCPOFFER
Message-ID:  <bug-229727-7501-3JHRlmeqcM@https.bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/>
In-Reply-To: <bug-229727-7501@https.bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/>
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--- Comment #5 from Rodney W. Grimes <rgrimes@FreeBSD.org> ---
(In reply to Stephan Neuhaus from comment #4)
My experience has been that STP interacts very poorly with any clients tryi=
ng
to do DHCP as the normal time for STP to decide a port is NOT connected to
another switch is on the order of 30 seconds, which is frequently beyond the
timeouts of DHCP request/offer cycles.   Some machines well work, some well
not, and it is all very flackey until you either turn STP off on the port, =
or
set it to fast mode.   Part of the problem is that boot time stuff likes to
reset NIC's, and resetting the NIC drops carrier, which causes the STP deci=
sion
all over.  This is especially annoyed when chain loading from a native PXE =
to
iPXE, often leading to iPXE load failures.

The only way to remove this variable is to either make sure STP is off on t=
he
port, or set to stp fast mode.

Using the same switch for both client/server does NOT remove stp from the p=
ath,
that single switch should still be trying to do stp.

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