Hi all, I ran into this issue today when I decided to do some maintenance on my home network. My laptop runs OpenBSD 7.2. I attempted to get a dhcplease from Spectrum Internet with a direct connection to my em0 ethernet interface. I got no response. I'm having the same problem with another computer that I wanted to use as my firewall (also running OpenBSD, same ver).
There is no dhcpleased.conf on my laptop, as I didn't see how any defaults needed to change. I also haven't had any recent issues getting a lease on it in other situations (yet). Cabling is good. A different (non-OpenBSD) firewall normally sits on this interface, and after I put it back, everything was working as normal. I'm happy to provide any additional information as requested. I tried this several times, cleared and shutdown the iwm0 interface, cleared the em0 interface, etc, this is output from the last time. :~> more /etc/hostname.em0 inet autoconf /etc/hostname.em0 (END) Output from dhcpleased -d -vvv with em0 enabled for 15-20 minutes: state_transition[iwm0] Bound -> Down, timo: 43119 state_transition[em0] Init -> Down, timo: -1 state_transition[em0] Down -> Down, timo: -1 state_transition[em0] Down -> Rebooting, timo: 1 DHCPREQUEST on em0 iface_timeout[2]: Rebooting state_transition[em0] Rebooting -> Rebooting, timo: 2 DHCPREQUEST on em0 iface_timeout[2]: Rebooting deleting 192.168.88.253 from em0 (lease from 0.0.0.0) state_transition[em0] Rebooting -> Init, timo: 1 DHCPDISCOVER on em0 deconfigure_interface em0 iface_timeout[2]: Init state_transition[em0] Init -> Init, timo: 2 DHCPDISCOVER on em0 iface_timeout[2]: Init state_transition[em0] Init -> Init, timo: 4 DHCPDISCOVER on em0 iface_timeout[2]: Init state_transition[em0] Init -> Init, timo: 8 DHCPDISCOVER on em0 iface_timeout[2]: Init state_transition[em0] Init -> Init, timo: 16 DHCPDISCOVER on em0 iface_timeout[2]: Init state_transition[em0] Init -> Init, timo: 32 DHCPDISCOVER on em0 iface_timeout[2]: Init state_transition[em0] Init -> Init, timo: 64 DHCPDISCOVER on em0 iface_timeout[2]: Init state_transition[em0] Init -> Init, timo: 64 DHCPDISCOVER on em0 iface_timeout[2]: Init state_transition[em0] Init -> Init, timo: 64 DHCPDISCOVER on em0 iface_timeout[2]: Init state_transition[em0] Init -> Init, timo: 64 DHCPDISCOVER on em0 iface_timeout[2]: Init state_transition[em0] Init -> Init, timo: 64 DHCPDISCOVER on em0 iface_timeout[2]: Init state_transition[em0] Init -> Init, timo: 64 DHCPDISCOVER on em0 ^Cwaiting for children to terminate frontend exiting engine exiting terminating :~> -- Bill Albertson
