hme0 interface going up/down (dhclient ?)

[dcx dcy]

Hi all, 

         I am having an issue where my hme0 interface is always turning up and down with dhclient requesting a lease.

 

I am thinking this could be the same issue described by Jeremy Chadwick on June 9th:

http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2013-June/073711.html

 

Everything was fine on 8.2-STABLE and older versions.  

 

It was then upgraded directly to 9.0-STABLE and this is where I started having issues­.

 

I am currently running 9.1-STABLE (July 7th) and issue persists.

 

This is a Sun Netra T1 acting as my home gateway, hme0 is connected to a Cisco switch. 

I am normally using DHCP to get an ip from my ISP.  

 

For now, the only way it works is to set a static ip  (I tried different dhclient options ... sync, etc).

 

hme1 and ath0 (AR5413) is serving internal network.

 

Thank you.

 

Dominic.