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

[Etienne Robillard]

--- "Conrad J. Sabatier" <conrads at cox.net> wrote:

> 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.

Thank you Conrad. I'll proceed with a upgrade as you
suggested, unless there's a solution for upgrading
offline that would pop out from cyberspace.. :-)

Cheers,
Etienne



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