On Wed, 22 Feb 2012, Ian Lepore wrote:

On Wed, 2012-02-22 at 11:40 -0700, Warren Block wrote:
In /etc/rc.conf:

   ifconfig_em0="SYNCDHCP"

dhclient runs on startup, then later tries to run again:

   Starting dhclient.
   em0: no link ...
   .
   .
   got link
   (...)
   Starting Network: lo0 em0.
   (...)
   Starting devd.
   Starting ums0 moused
   .
   dhclient already running? (pid=344).
   Creating and/or trimming log files

So is this from /etc/network.subr starting dhclient because the
interface is set to DHCP, then /etc/rc.d/dhclient running directly
later?

This is with

FreeBSD lightning 8.3-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 8.3-PRERELEASE #0: Tue Feb 21 22:25:30 
MST 2012
root@lightning:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/LIGHTNING  i386

From the sequence of things there it looks like the second invocation
may be from a devd rule, but I thought all the standard rules used
"dhclient quietstart" and that one of the effects of that was to supress
the "already running" warning.

The devd rule triggers on a link up event. This is an em(4) card that does not do the multiple up/down events on start like an re(4) card. But easy to test. ...And interestingly enough, commenting out lines 51-56 of devd.conf stops the double call:

  DHCPREQUEST on em0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67
  DHCPACK from 10.0.0.1
  bound to 10.0.0.8 -- renewal in 300 seconds.
  Starting Network: lo0 em0.
  lo0: flags=8049<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 16384
          options=3<RXCSUM,TXCSUM>
          inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000
  em0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 9216
          options=9b<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING,VLAN_HWCSUM>
          ether 00:02:b3:a9:93:d7
          inet 10.0.0.8 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 10.0.0.255
          media: Ethernet autoselect (1000baseT <full-duplex>)
          status: active
  Starting devd.
  Starting ums0 moused
  .
  Creating and/or trimming log files

For completeness, there's an unconnected re(4) card built into the motherboard that shows "re0: link state changed to DOWN" immediately after the "Starting devd." message.

AFAIK, it should happen like this:

ifconfig em0
em0 changes to up
dhclient em0 (sync)
wait until em0 gets a DHCP lease or fails
devd (em0 is already up, devd should do nothing)

So I guess the question is: why is devd seeing a link up event there?

I updated a couple systems to 8.3-{PRERELEASE,BETA1} over the past few
days and I haven't seen such a glitch.  I don't think it should make a
difference, but I use synchronous_dhclient=YES and ifconfig_foo=DHCP

That's a good point: testing... nope, it does the same thing as "SYNCDHCP".


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