Hi all,
I am having an issue where my hme0 interface is always turning up and
down with dhclient requesting a lease.
I am thinking this could be the same issue described by Jeremy Chadwick on June
9th:
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2013-June/073711.html
Everything was fine on 8.2-STABLE and older versions.
It was then upgraded directly to 9.0-STABLE and this is where I started having
issues?.
I am currently running 9.1-STABLE (July 7th) and issue persists.
This is a Sun Netra T1 acting as my home gateway, hme0 is connected to a Cisco
switch.
I am normally using DHCP to get an ip from my ISP.
For now, the only way it works is to set a static ip (I tried different
dhclient options ... sync, etc).
hme1 and ath0 (AR5413) is serving internal network.
Thank you.
Dominic.
On 9 July 2013 16:05, dcx dcy <dcbsdx at hotmail.com> wrote:> Hi all, > > I am having an issue where my hme0 interface is always turning up > and down with dhclient requesting a lease. > > > > I am thinking this could be the same issue described by Jeremy Chadwick on > June 9th: > > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2013-June/073711.html > >Sounds like it. I recall someone warned that this issue would pop up with more (especially older) ethernet drivers. I was one of the people that ran into this on the em driver (Intel EtherExpress 100Mbit), which got a fairly prompt fix after I raised the issue. Since this is apparently caused by an interaction between the dhclient interface up/down detection mechanism and various wired ethernet interface drivers, it seems to me that it would help to be able to turn off dhclient's detection feature (or can we do that already?). The feature seems to be mostly useful for mobile devices (laptops and such) who tend to leave and enter different wireless network areas and need a new lease at that point. With wired interfaces, especially those that don't change physical location, the feature seems mostly pointless. Being able to turn it on or off at will seems useful and it would give other people running into this an easy way out. Regards, -- If you can't see the forest for the trees, Cut the trees and you'll see there is no forest.
On Tue, Jul 09, 2013 at 02:05:30PM +0000, dcx dcy wrote:> Hi all, > > I am having an issue where my hme0 interface is always turning up and down with dhclient requesting a lease. > > > > I am thinking this could be the same issue described by Jeremy Chadwick on June 9th: > > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2013-June/073711.html > > > > Everything was fine on 8.2-STABLE and older versions. > > > > It was then upgraded directly to 9.0-STABLE and this is where I started having issues?. > > > > I am currently running 9.1-STABLE (July 7th) and issue persists. > > > > This is a Sun Netra T1 acting as my home gateway, hme0 is connected to a Cisco switch. > > I am normally using DHCP to get an ip from my ISP. > > > > For now, the only way it works is to set a static ip (I tried different dhclient options ... sync, etc). > > > > hme1 and ath0 (AR5413) is serving internal network. >Try attached patch and let me know whether it makes any difference for you. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: hme.diff Type: text/x-diff Size: 1080 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/attachments/20130710/a6b4e60a/attachment.diff>