Re: Cant bring up network interface

From: John Murphy (spam-trap_at_freeode.co.uk)
Date: 07/04/04

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    To: Nikhil Kale <ngkale_2000@yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Sun, 04 Jul 2004 16:50:51 +0100

    Nikhil Kale <ngkale_2000@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

    >Hello,
    > I have just installed FreeBSD 5.2 on my system. My
    >network card is National Semiconductors DP 83815 which
    >is detected properly for interface sis0. But somehow I
    >cant bring the interface up using DHCP. My machine is
    >a dual boot, and the linux system gets the proper DHCP
    >address.

    man 8 dhclient says:
    The client normally doesn't release the current lease as it is not
    required by the DHCP protocol. Some cable ISPs require their clients
    to notify the server if they wish to release an assigned IP address.
    The -r flag explicitly releases the current lease, and once the lease
    has been released, the client exits.

    So you may need to do whatever is your Linux version of dhclient -r

    The DHCP server has already assigned a lease to Linux which FreeBSD
    knows nothing about.

    <snip>
    > I am new to FreeBSD and am not sure whats happening.

    Welcome.
    You should send technical questions to questions@freebsd.org
    Where I have CC'd this reply. 

    -- 
John.
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