dhclient on 7-CURRENT refuse to cooperate (no DHCPOFFER)

[Conrad J. Sabatier]

On Sat, 10 Jun 2006 16:22:42 -0400 (EDT), Etienne Robillard
<granted14 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> I upgraded to a one-week old 7-CURRENT (HEAD) on a
> i386  
> type system and it seems like the OpenBSD dhclient app
> wont work for me...
> 
> It worked a while, but for some reasons, its
> impossible
> to get a lease. The symptoms are:
> - DHCPDISCOVER...
> - DHCPDISCOVER...
> and thats pretty much it. It doesnt pass that point,
> and  
> thus is can't proceed with DHCPOFFER nor with
> DHCPPACK...
> 
> Also, I tried running /sbin/dhclient from the OpenBSD
> cd, and it works! So, it looks to me that somehow
> there's something wrong here, but its really hard to
> make any further diagnosis. 
> 
> The  value  of ``kern.osreldate`` is: 700017.
> 
> Whether there's a patch or a work-around it would be
> really great to know how to apply--please let me know
> :-)
> 
> Thanks,
> Etienne

I experienced the same thing briefly on my amd64 box, at about the same
time as you.  A subsequent upgrade cleared it up.

-- 
Conrad J. Sabatier <conrads at cox.net> -- "In Unix veritas"