On Sunday 23 January 2005 12:09 pm, David Gerard wrote: > Hexren ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [050124 07:02]: > > DG> On reboot, I ran dhclient and it completely failed to get an IP > > address. DG> But I know the cable is good and the DHCP server is > > working, because I DG> booted the box in question into Windows and > > it grabbed an IP just fine. So DG> where do I start on diagnosing > > what's up with this installation? > > > > Start by sniffing the network traffic on the DHCP Server machine > > while you request an address. See where it differs from the usual. > > Maybe the problem becomes obvious then. :) > > As I noted, it served fine to the Windows installation on the same > box on the same wire from the same server. Also, just before > installing 5.3, it was serving just fine to FreeBSD 4.10 on the same > box on the same wire from the same server. The only factor that's > different is the software and OS running. I'm wondering what if > anything's changed in dhclient between 4.10 and 5.3 ... is there some > daft but obvious gotcha I've missed? Or are you saying the 5.3 > dhclient is much, much fussier in some way? > > > - d.
A while back I had exactly the same problem as you, what I did to prove there was a problem with dhclient in 5.3 was I copied the dir /usr/src/sbin/dhclient from a 4.10 machine to my 5.3 machine, then "make install"'ed it and it worked. I did my best to explain the problem in the lists to no avail so now the machine that runs the dsl modem is running FreeBSD 4.11 and I just don't worry about it anymore. -Mke _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
