From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jan 23 20:09:12 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DA5A616A4CE for ; Sun, 23 Jan 2005 20:09:12 +0000 (GMT) Received: from thingy.apana.org.au (adsl-175.isp.net.au [202.1.119.175]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 704D443D1F for ; Sun, 23 Jan 2005 20:09:12 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from fun@thingy.apana.org.au) Received: from fun by thingy.apana.org.au with local (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1Cso2f-0004wR-00; Mon, 24 Jan 2005 07:09:01 +1100 Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2005 07:09:00 +1100 From: David Gerard To: Hexren , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20050123200900.GE21544@thingy.apana.org.au> References: <20050123183343.GD21544@thingy.apana.org.au> <11418268078.20050123210226@hexren.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <11418268078.20050123210226@hexren.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6+20040907i Subject: Re: dhclient problems in 5.3-RELEASE X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 23 Jan 2005 20:09:13 -0000 Hexren (me@hexren.net) [050124 07:02]: > DG> On reboot, I ran dhclient and it completely failed to get an IP address. > DG> But I know the cable is good and the DHCP server is working, because I > DG> booted the box in question into Windows and it grabbed an IP just fine. So > DG> where do I start on diagnosing what's up with this installation? > Start by sniffing the network traffic on the DHCP Server machine while > you request an address. See where it differs from the usual. Maybe the > problem becomes obvious then. :) As I noted, it served fine to the Windows installation on the same box on the same wire from the same server. Also, just before installing 5.3, it was serving just fine to FreeBSD 4.10 on the same box on the same wire from the same server. The only factor that's different is the software and OS running. I'm wondering what if anything's changed in dhclient between 4.10 and 5.3 ... is there some daft but obvious gotcha I've missed? Or are you saying the 5.3 dhclient is much, much fussier in some way? - d.