Re: dhclient problem

On Thursday 07 February 2008 04:29 am, Paul B. Mahol wrote:
Sorry for noise, but there is actually no problem at all.

Probably net80211 code is improved so dhclient will not send
useless packet, instead it reports that there is no link.

Yes. See this:

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/sbin/dhclient/dispatch.c.diff?r1=1.2;r2=1.3

Previously dhclient(8) was assuming wireless controller is already
associated with a correct AP and safe to broadcast packets.

Jung-uk Kim

On Feb 7, 2008 6:21 AM, Nathan Butcher <n-butcher@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
All you have to do is issue "ifconfig rum0 up" to get your
device UP, and then try dhclient. It should work.

The standard scripts should be running "ifconfig xxx up" on any
interface that has an ifconfig_xxx variable in rc.conf. Has
that been broken?

-- Brooks

My USB wireless dongle doesn't have any rc.conf config line, but
it used to be automatically UP without the config line at boot
time at one point.

I remember doing an csup update on my box at one point and
discovering this change.
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