sk0 and dhclient

[Derek Tattersall]

* Wilko Bulte (wkb at freebie.xs4all.nl) [031215 16:48]:
> Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2003 20:06:52 +0100
> From: Wilko Bulte <wkb at freebie.xs4all.nl>
> To: Hugh Brown <hbrown at dyaptive.com>
> Message-ID: <20031215190652.GA13373 at freebie.xs4all.nl>
> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i
> Cc: freebsd-current at freebsd.org
> Cc: Marcus Larsson <kore at mindwipe.org>
> Subject: Re: sk0 and dhclient
> 
> 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.
I'll give them a try if you can either send them to the above address or
pass a web/ftp site where I can pick them up.  Thanks a bunch.
> 
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Derek Tattersall			dlt at mebtel.net