ue0 dhclient FBSD8-BETA2

[Paul A. Procacci]

Brooks,


I appreciate the quick follow up.  You were right, and this now work 
perfectly.  Thank you for taking the time to respond to my question.

Thanks,
Paul

Brooks Davis wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 02:05:43PM -0500, Paul A. Procacci wrote:
>   
>> Gents,
>>
>> Since the name changed for my cdce device, booting up the OS fails to 
>> obtain an address via dhcp on this interface.  dhclient works normally 
>> after the machine is booted and I provide the command on the command line.
>>
>> I've got the following in my rc.conf which I would have thought to be 
>> enough, but it doesn't matter as dhclient never gets run,
>>
>> ifconfig_ue0="DHCP"
>>
>> This isn't a deal breaker by any means, but would like to inquire about 
>> about the proper steps for getting dhclient to physically work on the ue0 
>> interface.  Docs on this subject (usb ethernet changes) at this point are 
>> scarce and I'm not sure what specifically needs to be done.
>>     
>
> This generally means that ue0 never reports a link up event which means
> dhclient never gets run.  If so, the driver is broken, but you may be
> able to work around it by changing DHCP to SYNCDHCP.  In that case
> it may work if the cable is plugged in when the device it attached.
>
> -- Brooks
>