www/151690: network connectivity won't work until dhclient is run manually

[Kyle]

>Number:         151690
>Category:       www
>Synopsis:       network connectivity won't work until dhclient is run manually
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    freebsd-www
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Sun Oct 24 17:50:09 UTC 2010
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Kyle
>Release:        FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE
>Organization:
n/a
>Environment:
FreeBSD victim.home 8.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE #0: Mon Jul 19 02:55:53 UTC 2010     root at almeida.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  i386

>Description:
Using a PCMCIA 3com Etherlink III 3C589D, the system will not gain connectivity to the internet until I type in dhclient manually or use ifconfig to set a static IP. When the machine is booting, it shows it getting an IP address. Additionally, ifconfig -a and netstat -nr produce identical results before and after i manually run dhclient or ifconfig to grab a "new" IP. executing ifconfig (with or without arguments) after I'm connected causes connectivity to be lost, but typing dhclient or setting a new IP with ifconfig causes the issue to be "corrected" once again.

I was able to workaround typing this in manually by adding "dhclient ep0" to my /etc/rc.local file, but this isn't really an acceptable long term solution.
>How-To-Repeat:
Reproduce the setup explained above.
>Fix:
None yet known.

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