On Sat, May 11, 2013 at 7:57 PM, Michael L. Squires <mi...@siralan.org>wrote:
> I upgraded to FreeBSD 8.4-RC3 and noticed a problem with the fxp driver on > an older Supermicro single CPU single core Xeon motherboard. > > I know that 8.3-Release does not have this issue, but don't know when in > the updates to that release the regression was introduced. > > I use the fxp driver to connect to a Motorola Surfboard cable modem, and > immediately saw the following occur many times: > > May 10 23:00:04 familysquires kernel: fxp0: link state changed to DOWN > May 10 23:00:04 familysquires dhclient: New Subnet Mask (fxp0): > 255.255.240.0 > May 10 23:00:04 familysquires dhclient: New Broadcast Address (fxp0): > 255.255.25 > 5.255 > May 10 23:00:04 familysquires dhclient: New Routers (fxp0): xx.xxx.xxx.1 > May 10 23:00:06 familysquires kernel: fxp0: link state changed to UP > May 10 23:00:22 familysquires dhclient: New IP Address (fxp0): > xx.xxx.xxx.163 > May 10 23:00:22 familysquires kernel: fxp0: link state changed to DOWN > May 10 23:00:22 familysquires dhclient: New Subnet Mask (fxp0): > 255.255.240.0 > May 10 23:00:22 familysquires dhclient: New Broadcast Address (fxp0): > 255.255.255.255 > May 10 23:00:22 familysquires dhclient: New Routers (fxp0): xx.xxx.xxx.1 > May 10 23:00:24 familysquires kernel: fxp0: link state changed to UP > > repeated without end. > I recently upgraded one of my systems from FreeBSD 7.4 to FreeBSD releng/8, and had DHCP problems. My system though is running a bge NIC, not fxp. I don't know if this solution can help your case, but I found that this helped me. I added the following line to my /etc/rc.conf: synchronous_dhclient="YES" Without that line, my system would not boot up properly with networking working. -- Craig _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"