On 2026/09/26 07:14, Crystal Kolipe wrote: > On Fri, Sep 25, 2026 at 05:53:27PM -0400, Ed Heil wrote: > > Here's several seconds of traffic captured with "tcpdump -l -i iwm0 | > > tee output" during which I gave the command "dhcpleasectl iwm0" with > > the output "iwm0 [Init]" and no ip address assigned. > > [ ... ] > > > 17:39:43.918151 0.0.0.0.bootpc > 255.255.255.255.bootps: xid:0x47bc4a32 > > [|bootp] [tos 0x10] > > This is a dhcp request going out, but the router never answers it. > > So this is a dhcp problem, not a wifi connectivity issue. > > Presumably either the router is mis-configured somehow, or dhcpleased is > sending a malformed request that it doesn't like.
Or maybe has run out of leasable addresses. Are logs available on the router? Maybe try a different dhcp client (e.g. dhcpcd)? > You might get more useful information by running dhcpleased in verbose mode: > > # rcctl stop dhcpleased > # dhcpleased -d -vv > > > 17:39:45.025067 arp who-has 10.0.0.49 tell 10.0.0.1 > > 17:39:46.054161 arp who-has 10.0.0.49 tell 10.0.0.1 > > Do you know what device 10.0.0.49 is? These arp requests are never answered. >
