Re: dhclient in 6.0

2006-03-01 Thread Charles Swiger
On Feb 28, 2006, at 7:16 PM, David W. Hankins wrote: On Thu, Feb 09, 2006 at 12:50:08PM -0500, Chuck Swiger wrote: If you haven't read this: http://files.stuartcheshire.org/draft-cheshire-ipv4-acd.txt ...it's worth considering the way it standardizes (or proposes to standardize) how ARP

Re: dhclient in 6.0

2006-03-01 Thread David W. Hankins
On Wed, Mar 01, 2006 at 02:05:48PM -0500, Charles Swiger wrote: Perhaps I'll be free to contribute some patches, as I've got code that handles layer-2 ARP traffic per the recommendations in the link above. But I don't own the software in question, it was for a client, so I'll have to

Re: dhclient in 6.0

2006-02-28 Thread David W. Hankins
On Thu, Feb 09, 2006 at 12:50:08PM -0500, Chuck Swiger wrote: If you haven't read this: http://files.stuartcheshire.org/draft-cheshire-ipv4-acd.txt ...it's worth considering the way it standardizes (or proposes to standardize) how ARP traffic from unconfigured IPs should be done to

Re: dhclient in 6.0

2006-02-16 Thread Doug Barton
Freddie Cash wrote: Completely naive, non-developer question: would it be possible to split the wi(4) driver into two drivers? One to support all the ancient, pre-802.11 cards, and one to support all the nice, new cards? All things are possible, if a volunteer steps forward to do the

Re: dhclient in 6.0

2006-02-15 Thread Sam Leffler
Craig Boston wrote: On Sat, Feb 04, 2006 at 10:04:16PM -0800, Kevin Oberman wrote: The problem is that the integration of the modern wlan (802.11) code has never been done in the if_wi code and it does not report state back to wlan adequately to make the OpenBSD client function correctly.

Re: dhclient in 6.0

2006-02-15 Thread Freddie Cash
On Wednesday 15 February 2006 09:31 am, Sam Leffler wrote: Craig Boston wrote: On Sat, Feb 04, 2006 at 10:04:16PM -0800, Kevin Oberman wrote: I recently made another stab at overhauling wi to better integrate with net80211. It uses some of Craig's work and some of mine. The results were

Re: dhclient in 6.0

2006-02-14 Thread Craig Boston
On Sat, Feb 04, 2006 at 10:04:16PM -0800, Kevin Oberman wrote: The problem is that the integration of the modern wlan (802.11) code has never been done in the if_wi code and it does not report state back to wlan adequately to make the OpenBSD client function correctly. Well, that's not quite

Re: dhclient in 6.0

2006-02-09 Thread Chuck Swiger
David W. Hankins wrote: On Sat, Feb 04, 2006 at 01:37:33AM -0500, Chuck Swiger wrote: [ ...sorry for the minor delay, realjob sometimes interferes... ] OK, cool. Are you doing anything with regard to Zeroconf/Rendezvous? Not really, no, except when DHCP options appear to turn off IPv4LL, or

Re: dhclient in 6.0

2006-02-07 Thread David W. Hankins
On Mon, Feb 06, 2006 at 11:11:45AM +, Matt Dawson wrote: send host-name `hostname -s`; I currently have *three* competing execute() patches queued for ISC DHCP 3.1.0 which could be used to do this: send host-name execute(hostname -s); send fqdn.fqdn execute(hostname);

Re: dhclient in 6.0

2006-02-06 Thread Matt Dawson
On Sunday 05 February 2006 06:04, you wrote: The problem is that the integration of the modern wlan (802.11) code has never been done in the if_wi code and it does not report state back to wlan adequately to make the OpenBSD client function correctly. Thank you, right there. That's exactly

Re: dhclient in 6.0

2006-02-06 Thread Rob B
At 07:02 PM 6/02/2006, Matt Dawson wrote: On Sunday 05 February 2006 06:04, you wrote: The problem is that the integration of the modern wlan (802.11) code has never been done in the if_wi code and it does not report state back to wlan adequately to make the OpenBSD client function correctly.

Re: dhclient in 6.0

2006-02-06 Thread Matt Dawson
On Monday 06 February 2006 10:04, you wrote: The thing I found with DDNS was getting the darn client to return the correct hostname.  For some reason, without setting it in dhclient.conf, the DNS would not update, even if I have configured the DHCP server to do the updates. Yep, AOL. This was

Re: dhclient in 6.0

2006-02-06 Thread David W. Hankins
On Sat, Feb 04, 2006 at 01:37:33AM -0500, Chuck Swiger wrote: Howdy. Do you have a computer named HAL, by any chance? :-) No, but I do have one named 'goliath'. OK, cool. Are you doing anything with regard to Zeroconf/Rendezvous? Not really, no, except when DHCP options appear to turn off

Re: dhclient in 6.0

2006-02-04 Thread Matt Dawson
On Saturday 04 February 2006 12:01, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: many aspects of the network interface configuration    process were overhauled. Which, I suppose, explains the yo-yo effect of my two xe (4) PC Cards, amongst others, and why my wi (4) card no longer behaves itself.

Re: dhclient in 6.0

2006-02-04 Thread Kevin Oberman
From: Matt Dawson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sat, 4 Feb 2006 18:08:02 + Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Saturday 04 February 2006 12:01, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrot e: many aspects of the network interface configuration process were overhauled. Which, I suppose, explains the yo-yo effect of

Re: dhclient in 6.0

2006-02-03 Thread make stuff up
hi all... again... i sent this message to general questions but nobody got excited about it. i just installed 6 on my t30 laptop. brand new. when trying dhclient i get: DHCPDISCOVER on fxp0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 5 this trys 6 times then this shows up: No DHCPOFFERS

Re: dhclient in 6.0

2006-02-03 Thread Marcin Jessa
On Fri, 3 Feb 2006 06:10:18 -0500 (EST) make stuff up [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi all... again... i sent this message to general questions but nobody got excited about it. i just installed 6 on my t30 laptop. brand new. when trying dhclient i get: DHCPDISCOVER on fxp0 to

Re: dhclient in 6.0

2006-02-03 Thread make stuff up
There was a change in DHCP between FreeBSD 5.x and 6. I noticed the same behaviour with a couple of hw broadband routers. AFAIR this was also reported back to the list, still no fix was provided. thank you... does that mean back to 5.4 for now? this is the only system i have on the

Re: dhclient in 6.0

2006-02-03 Thread Cristiano Deana
2006/2/3, make stuff up [EMAIL PROTECTED]: thank you... does that mean back to 5.4 for now? Try install /usr/ports/net/isc-dhcp3-client/ -- Cris, member of G.U.F.I Italian FreeBSD User Group http://www.gufi.org/ ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org

Re: dhclient in 6.0

2006-02-03 Thread kalin mintchev
2006/2/3, make stuff up [EMAIL PROTECTED]: thank you... does that mean back to 5.4 for now? Try install /usr/ports/net/isc-dhcp3-client/ without a connection? -- Cris, member of G.U.F.I Italian FreeBSD User Group http://www.gufi.org/

Re: dhclient in 6.0

2006-02-03 Thread Alexey Karagodov
try install /usr/ports/net/isc-dhcp3-client and edit your rc.conf: dhclient_program=/usr/local/sbin/dhclient dhclient_flags= see manual for isc-dhcp3-client 2006/2/3, Frank Altpeter [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi there, kalin mintchev wrote on 2006-02-03 at 13:55:01 CET: 2006/2/3, make stuff up

Re: dhclient in 6.0

2006-02-03 Thread Marcin Jessa
On Fri, 3 Feb 2006 14:02:41 +0100 Frank Altpeter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi there, kalin mintchev wrote on 2006-02-03 at 13:55:01 CET: 2006/2/3, make stuff up [EMAIL PROTECTED]: thank you... does that mean back to 5.4 for now? Try install /usr/ports/net/isc-dhcp3-client/

Re: dhclient in 6.0

2006-02-03 Thread Marcin Jessa
On Fri, 3 Feb 2006 14:39:19 +0100 Frank Altpeter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi there, Marcin Jessa wrote on 2006-02-03 at 14:33:55 CET: On Fri, 3 Feb 2006 14:02:41 +0100 Frank Altpeter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi there, kalin mintchev wrote on 2006-02-03 at 13:55:01 CET:

Re: dhclient in 6.0

2006-02-03 Thread kalin mintchev
try install /usr/ports/net/isc-dhcp3-client and edit your rc.conf: dhclient_program=/usr/local/sbin/dhclient dhclient_flags= see manual for isc-dhcp3-client ok.. this sounds reasonable... but how do i tell the dhcp server what number am i assigning to fxp0? now ifconfig shows exactly the

Re: dhclient in 6.0

2006-02-03 Thread kalin mintchev
try install /usr/ports/net/isc-dhcp3-client and edit your rc.conf: dhclient_program=/usr/local/sbin/dhclient dhclient_flags= see manual for isc-dhcp3-client ok.. this sounds reasonable... but how do i tell the dhcp server what number am i assigning to fxp0? now ifconfig shows exactly

Re: dhclient in 6.0

2006-02-03 Thread David W. Hankins
Marcin Jessa wrote: Son't be silly. What if you dont know what IP you will get from the lease? That's what working implementation of DHCP is for... I thought that was why FreeBSD moved away from ISC DHCP to OpenBSD dhclient? Actually, I guess I never did understand that move. Certainly, no

Re: dhclient in 6.0

2006-02-03 Thread make stuff up
kalin mintchev wrote: try install /usr/ports/net/isc-dhcp3-client and edit your rc.conf: dhclient_program=/usr/local/sbin/dhclient dhclient_flags= see manual for isc-dhcp3-client ok.. this sounds reasonable... but how do i tell the dhcp server what number am i assigning to fxp0? now ifconfig

Re: dhclient in 6.0

2006-02-03 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Saturday 04 February 2006 00:36, Marcin Jessa wrote: What if you take your laptop to an university to hold a lecture and you are unable to run dhcp? None of the students know of the IPs avaliable in the range. Some systems disallow traffic unless your MAC-address is registered in their

Re: dhclient in 6.0

2006-02-03 Thread Chuck Swiger
David W. Hankins wrote: Marcin Jessa wrote: Son't be silly. What if you dont know what IP you will get from the lease? That's what working implementation of DHCP is for... I thought that was why FreeBSD moved away from ISC DHCP to OpenBSD dhclient? Actually, I guess I never did

Re: dhclient in 6.0

2006-02-03 Thread John-Mark Gurney
David W. Hankins wrote this message on Fri, Feb 03, 2006 at 16:55 -0800: There's no one I think I'm supposed to be talking to about architectural plans like these at FreeBSD. So all these plans Well, you could always check the FreeBSD cvs repository to see who imported dhclient (a hint, it's

Re: dhclient in 6.0

2006-02-03 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Saturday 04 February 2006 11:25, David W. Hankins wrote: I thought that was why FreeBSD moved away from ISC DHCP to OpenBSD dhclient? Actually, I guess I never did understand that move. Certainly, no one ever explained it to me without a great deal of wifi handwaving. I was under the

Re: dhclient in 6.0

2006-02-03 Thread J. Buck Caldwell
Chuck Swiger wrote: It would also be good if dhcpd would reassign the same IP to the same machine (if the IP is not otherwise being used) if there was a prior lease matching the client asking for a new lease, and not just when a client is trying to renew an existing lease. I'm way outside