dhclient broken

justin at shiningsilence.com justin at shiningsilence.com
Tue Jan 17 06:54:50 PST 2006


> Version tested: DragonflyBSD 1.4 Release
> Sympthomes: dhclient can't receive DHCPOFFERS, becuse he does not send
> anything over the wire.
>
> `tcpdump -n -i xl0 -vvv` shows, that bootp request packet was sent, but
> not xmit led
> on netcard, not data led on cable modem are blinking.
> Confirmed with xl/rl/tl polling on and off.

I have two separate 1.4 machines with rl cards connecting through DHCP -
one to a local dhcp server, and another to my cable Internet provider,
without issues.  I suspect your problem is with hardware.  Are you getting
a link light on the card when the cat5 cable is plugged in?







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