Apparent fxp regression in FreeBSD 8.4-RC3

[YongHyeon PYUN]

On Mon, May 27, 2013 at 01:02:14PM -0400, Michael L. Squires wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 27 May 2013, YongHyeon PYUN wrote:
> 
> >On Sun, May 26, 2013 at 08:38:41PM +0900, YongHyeon PYUN wrote:
> >>On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 04:36:46PM +0900, Hiroki Sato wrote:
> >>>Hiroki Sato <hrs at FreeBSD.org> wrote
> >>>  in <20130524.162926.395058052118975996.hrs at allbsd.org>:
> >>>
> >>>hr> YongHyeon PYUN <pyunyh at gmail.com> wrote
> >>>hr>   in <20130524054720.GA1496 at michelle.cdnetworks.com>:
> >>>hr>
> >>>hr>  A workaround is specifying the following line in rc.conf:
> >>>hr>
> >>>hr>  ifconfig_fxp0="DHCP media 100baseTX mediaopt full-duplex"
> >>>
> 
> Sorry I've been offline, two trips last week.
> 
> I've installed 8.4-RELEASE on the NAT box with the fxp interface:
> 
> FreeBSD familysquires.net 8.4-RELEASE FreeBSD 8.4-RELEASE #54: Sun May 26 
> 22:56:19 EDT 2013     root at familysquires.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/NEWGATE  
> i386
> 
> and am using the workaround given above which has stopped the fxp interface
> cycling on/off.
> 
> I'll have access to the other box on Wednesday and will try the other test.

Here is patch I'm testing and it seems to work with dhclient on
CURRENT.
Mike, could you try attached patch?

> 
> Mike Squires
> mikes at siralan.org
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