Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2001 15:03:51 -0400 From: Louis LeBlanc <leblanc+freebsd@smtp.ne.mediaone.net> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: dhclient/ifconfig questions. Message-ID: <20011008150351.A1543@acadia.ne.mediaone.net>
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Hey folks. A little rc.conf/ifconfig/dhcp trouble here. Here is what I have: fxp0 - internal interface xl0 - external interface fxp0 is easy. No problems configuring that. xl0 is giving me a headache. Here is what I need to do: Set ether to 00:A0:CC:33:55:25 and configure with dhclient. Sounds easy, but . . . Here is what I'm doing in rc.conf: defaultrouter="NO" dhcp_program=/sbin/dhclient dhcp_flags="" gateway_enable="YES" hostname="acadia.ne.mediaone.net" ifconfig_fxp0="inet 10.8.20.5 netmask 255.255.255.0" ifconfig_xl0="DHCP ether 00:A0:CC:33:55:25" . . . But when I reboot, not only is it not starting dhclient, but X won't start! I get a libgtk12.so.2 not found error, but it is there. When I set the whole thing back (I backed up my rc.conf so as not to be an idiot), everything works fine, with xl0 not being brought up. The xl0 interface does work fine otherwise, so I'm sure my mixing DHCP and ether parameters is the source of the problem. Probably crapping out the boot process before all the libraries, etc. can be loaded. I looked thru the rc.conf manpage and could not find any details on passing the ether setting to a dhcp configured interface. Is it possible to do so? I know putting an ifconfig xl0 ether . . . command in dhclient-enter-hooks won't work, since the address has to be right before dhclient even requests an IP. I won't really need it to work this way for long, as I will be calling my ISP to set up the new hardware address once I am fairly sure everything else works well. Thanks in advance! Lou -- Louis LeBlanc leblanc@acadia.ne.mediaone.net Fully Funded Hobbyist, KeySlapper Extrordinaire :) http://acadia.ne.mediaone.net ԿԬ Biology is the only science in which multiplication means the same thing as division. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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