Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2006 00:27:05 GMT From: "Devon H. O'Dell" <dodell@iXsystems.com> To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: bin/94815: [patch] [sysinstall] Upping the network interface before dhclient in sysinstall Message-ID: <200603220027.k2M0R5Tm076128@www.freebsd.org> Resent-Message-ID: <200603220050.k2M0oEX5047993@freefall.freebsd.org>
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>Number: 94815 >Category: bin >Synopsis: [patch] [sysinstall] Upping the network interface before dhclient in sysinstall >Confidential: no >Severity: serious >Priority: medium >Responsible: freebsd-bugs >State: open >Quarter: >Keywords: >Date-Required: >Class: change-request >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Wed Mar 22 00:50:14 GMT 2006 >Closed-Date: >Last-Modified: >Originator: Devon H. O'Dell >Release: 6.0-RELEASE-p3 >Organization: iXsystems >Environment: FreeBSD noisegen.iXsystems.com 6.0-RELEASE-p3 FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE-p3 #0: Fri Jan 20 09:37:01 PST 2006 dodell@noisegen.iXsystems.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/Q i386 >Description: There is a strange issue with the bge(4) driver under which some, but not all bge(4) chipsets lose their link after being probed by the driver. Indeed, this behavior doesn't even seem to affect all the chips of the affected chipsets. While the rc scripts explicitly up the interface before attempting to use dhclient on them, sysinstall(8) does not. This is particularly annoying when doing PXE-booted, NFS-based installations on a network with addresses allocated via DHCP (as we have in our server assembly network). >How-To-Repeat: Find a system that exhibits this issue (it's not that difficult: I've come across about 15 out of 50 in the last month that do this). Boot it with PXE. When sysinstall(8) asks if you'd like to enable DHCP for the interface, say yes. Be astonished when all fields come up blank. Lather. Rinse. Repeat. >Fix: This patch is also available at http://www.sitetronics.com/~dodell/sysinstall.diff in case this web submission has whitespace issues. -- begin patch -- Index: tcpip.c =================================================================== RCS file: /home/ncvs/src/usr.sbin/sysinstall/tcpip.c,v retrieving revision 1.136 diff -u -r1.136 tcpip.c --- tcpip.c 28 Feb 2006 21:49:32 -0000 1.136 +++ tcpip.c 21 Mar 2006 00:37:55 -0000 @@ -412,6 +412,13 @@ Mkdir("/var/db"); Mkdir("/var/run"); Mkdir("/tmp"); + + /* XXX This is necessary for some bge(4) NICs when booting from + * PXE. It doesn't affect all of the chipsets, and moreover, it + * doesn't seem to affect all chips of the chipsets it does affect. + */ + vsystem("ifconfig %s up", devp->name); + msgNotify("Scanning for DHCP servers..."); /* XXX clear any existing lease */ /* XXX limit protocol to N tries */ -- end patch -- >Release-Note: >Audit-Trail: >Unformatted:
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