sk0 and dhclient

[Wilko Bulte]

On Mon, Dec 15, 2003 at 10:10:20AM -0800, Hugh Brown wrote:
> Derek Tattersall wrote:
> > * Marcus Larsson (kore at mindwipe.org) [031213 19:04]:
> > >   I have a 3com 940 ethernet card and I have ifconfig_sk0="DHCP"
> > >   in my rc.conf. When I boot my machine it hangs on dhclient but
> > >   after a certain amount of time dhclient gives up and the boot
> > >   process continues. When I login and run 'dhclient sk0' it
> > >   works without any hazzle but I can't get an IP addy during
> > >   bootup. Now is anyone else experiencing this?
> >
> > iBecause I can get it to work by just restarting dhclient after it time
> > out, I figured I would try to earn my kernel hacker merit badge and
> > figure out what's going on.  No joy so far.  It's got to be some sort of
> > timing problem but I'm at a loss.  Anybody got a clue to offer?
> 
> There's a report of this problem from August [1]. 
> 
> I've got a similar problem with the 3c940 on an Asus P4P800
> motherboard: it will not pick up an IPv6 address using rtsol *unless*
> the interface is put into promiscuous mode ("tcpdump -n -i sk0" works 
> well).  
> 
> Wilko Bulte wrote [2] that there are pending patches that deal with
> promiscuous mode; I'm hoping that these will fix this problem.  

I can send the patches that were sent to me if people want to test them,
just lemme know.

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