That's interesting - I have a similar problem that also
just started recently (coincided with changing my power
supply but I'm sure that it is unrelated). I find that
one of three things happens:
1. dhcp simply does not successfully negotiate
2. dhcp negotiates, gets an IP number and a router, but
then I get 100% packet loss. (Never tried calling them to
see if they got through to me.)
3. It actually works.
Option 2 is what usually happens, but if I restarting
dhcp enough times, I get option 3. Since I keep the
connection up all the time, I only worry about the
problem sporadically. So I have never tried to investigate
its cause. (The ISP is att@home if that is useful. My
NIC is a RealTek 8139.)
Luc Morin wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I've been asked to clarify the topology of my system.
>
> Very simple setup. All I have is my home box connected to my ISP
> thru cable-modem. My NIC is a PCI NE2000 clone using the ed driver.
>
> My ISP uses DHCP to assign my IP, so I run dhclient at boot time
> from my rc.conf file. This setup has been running fine for me for over
> a year now. Even after my last cvsup/buildworld everything was
> still perfectly working.
>
> A few days ago, I started getting a situation where after a few
> minutes of operation (after boot), I can't reach anything, not even
> my default gateway (assigned by my ISP as part of DHCP).
>
> I've talked to my ISP's tech support rep, and he told me he could
> ping my box just fine ( 0% packet loss ), while I couldn't ping
> anything ( 100% packet loss ). I also noticed that even though
> I can't reach the outside world, I still see some syslogd messages
> about failed attempt to connect to my box (I have log_in_vain="YES"
> in rc.conf).
>
> Please see attached file for specifics of my system (kernel config
> file, dmesg output, uname -a, ps -ax etc...)
>
> I hope this clarifies the situation :-)
>
> Many thanks,
>
> Luc Morin
>
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