Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2012 10:40:44 -0400 From: enoch <ixew@hotmail.com> To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [nfe] DHCP failure on 8-stable Message-ID: <4F75C5EC.6090303@hotmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20120330233819.GC7325@michelle.cdnetworks.com> References: <jl3lp1$lla$1@dough.gmane.org> <20120330233819.GC7325@michelle.cdnetworks.com>
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On 03/30/2012 19:38, YongHyeon PYUN wrote: > On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 03:01:52AM -0400, enoch wrote: >> Recently it became extremely difficult to pass the DHCP discovery step >> on boot. Now I am using the buggy [nve] instead. >> >> Can anyone help? >> > > Did you set synchronous_dhclient option in rc.conf? > Yes: ifconfig_nfe0="SYNCDHCP" I guess [nfe] is undergoing gradual devel changes of some sort as before it had some chance of reporting "empty headers" on initial ifconfig and refusing to work. Sorry, I should have reported when encountering the first problems rather than solve by reboot. In any case, the alternative [nve] should be marked "dangerous" as under heavy load it tends to crash the system. Thanks, Enoch. >> >> uname -a >> ~~~~~~~~ >> FreeBSD dome 8.3-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 8.3-PRERELEASE #7: Thu Mar 29 >> 14:37:00 EDT 2012 root@dome:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/DOME amd64 >> >> nfe0 fails at DHCPDISCOVER. >> >> ifconfig: >> >> nfe0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500 >> options=82008<VLAN_MTU,WOL_MAGIC,LINKSTATE> >> ether 00:1f:bc:00:19:dc >> inet 0.0.0.0 netmask 0xff000000 broadcast 255.255.255.255 >> media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX <full-duplex>) >> status: active >> >> lspci: >> >> 00:14.0 Bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP51 Ethernet Controller (rev a3) > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-net@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-net > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-net-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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