dhclient in 6.0

[Erik Norgaard]

make stuff up wrote:
>   hi all..
> 
>   this is new - just installed 6 and here:
>   # dhclient fxp0
>   DHCPDISCOVER on fxp0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 5
>   DHCPDISCOVER on fxp0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 8
> ..............................................................................................
>  and a few other intervals...
> 
>   so if the fxp0 is up and the dhcp server is up then whats wrong with
> dhclient?...
>   i'm actually writing from a machine on the same dhcp server...

Hi there, I just read through this thread. I run dhclient on 6.0 with no 
problem at all. Normally, it will start sending a DHCPREQUEST then 
DHCPDISCOVER.

Some questions:

- Do you use a dhclient.conf from your previous install? These are
   incompatible. The new dhclient is a port from OpenBSD who completely
   rewrote dhclient. The old is from ISC.

- Have you tried to toggle timeout/retry in dhclient.conf?

- Can you sniff traffic on the NIC?

- Do you have any firewalling set? or did you forget to disable ipfw?
   I think that ipfw defaults to block everything, I'm not sure if that
   is new in 6.0.

Yes, I know the last two are somewhat basic stuff, but sometimes one 
just forget to check it.

Cheers, Erik

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