Seems DHCP request is ignoring default route info FreeBSD 9.0

David Cornejo dave at dogwood.com
Mon Aug 27 22:37:24 UTC 2012


On Mon, Aug 27, 2012 at 5:30 AM, Bernard Higonnet <bthigonnet at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I have two machines running 9.0 and which use DHCP. The DHCP server is on
> a third machine using dnsmasq, also under 9.0, and provides an explicit
> default router address.
>
> dnsmasq is sending the right stuff, as evidenced by the dnsmasq log on the
> one hand, and by the fact that a Windows7 machine and a Windows XP machine
> are using the same DHCP server and those machines get the proper default
> gateway info on the other hand.
>
> Here is output from dnsmasq.log
>
> Aug 27 16:32:19 dnsmasq-dhcp[922]: 4078691060 sent size:  4 option:  3
> router  192.168.4.1
>
> What happens on the two FreeBSD machines is that I end up with no default
> gateway at all!
>
> When the same DHCP server used to provide its default gateway (i.e. the
> machine dnsmasq is running on) everything was OK.
>
> TIA
> Bernard Higonnet
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Can you supply the output of "netstat -nr" from the machine that is missing
a default route please?


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