dhclient on 7-CURRENT refuse to cooperate (no DHCPOFFER)

Christian S.J. Peron csjp at FreeBSD.org
Sun Jun 11 16:28:31 UTC 2006


Etienne Robillard wrote:
> I upgraded to a one-week old 7-CURRENT (HEAD) on a
> i386  
> type system and it seems like the OpenBSD dhclient app
> wont work for me...
>
> It worked a while, but for some reasons, its
> impossible
> to get a lease. The symptoms are:
> - DHCPDISCOVER...
> - DHCPDISCOVER...
> and thats pretty much it. It doesnt pass that point,
> and  
> thus is can't proceed with DHCPOFFER nor with
> DHCPPACK...
>
> Also, I tried running /sbin/dhclient from the OpenBSD
> cd, and it works! So, it looks to me that somehow
> there's something wrong here, but its really hard to
> make any further diagnosis. 
>
> The  value  of ``kern.osreldate`` is: 700017.
>
> Whether there's a patch or a work-around it would be
> really great to know how to apply--please let me know
> :-)
>
> Thanks,
> Etienne
>
>
>
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>   
This should have been fixed last week, unfortunately it was a victim of 
some of the recent BPF work we did.

-- 
Christian S.J. Peron
csjp at FreeBSD.ORG
FreeBSD Committer
FreeBSD Security Team



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