Non working NIC

[Polytropon]

On Wed, 17 Aug 2016 16:21:16 -0700, Doug Hardie wrote:
> 
> > On 17 August 2016, at 16:05, Polytropon <freebsd at edvax.de> wrote:
> > 
> > On Wed, 17 Aug 2016 15:56:15 -0700, Doug Hardie wrote:
> >> Added a new NIC (rl0).  Removed any reference to msk0 in rc.conf. 
> >> Set rl0 for DHCP.  Same result, but some additional messages:
> >> 
> >> Starting Network: mske0
> >> Starting Network: rl0
> >> rl0: link state changed to up
> >> Starting Network: lo0
> >> Starting dhclient
> >> rl0: not found
> >> exiting
> >> 
> >> I am out of ideas here.  How can I figure out what is going on and correct it?
> > 
> > This almost looks like a problem with the contents of rc.conf.
> > Can you show all the relevant lines?
> 
> ifconfig rl0="DHCP"
          ^
Missing underscore. -> ifconfig_rl0="DHCP"



> > Can you manually run "dhclient rl0" at any stage?
> 
> rl0: not found
> exiting

So the question is: Why does the device disappear after the
kernel reported its status change to "up"?



> > What does "ifconfig -a" show?
> 
> : flags=8802<BROADCAST,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST>
> ifconfig: ioctl(SIOCGIFINFO_IN6): Device not configured

It seems that one is related to IPv6.




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