sk0 and dhclient

[Wilko Bulte]

I bounced the original patch submission to -current for all to
play with.

Please let me know if it changes^Wimproves things for you.

Wilko

On Mon, Dec 15, 2003 at 04:52:58PM -0500, Derek Tattersall wrote:
> * 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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