Unless the network is lying to me again, M. Warner Losh said: > : | I read where others have had to do a "ifconfig fxp0 down" first before > : | they can bring their wi devices up, but "ifconfig rl0 down" didn't work > : | for me. When I try to invoke dhclient on wi0, I immediately get this: > : | > : | ifconfig: ioctl (SIOCDIFADDR): Can't assign requested address
> : I think this all due to the change in sys/netinet/in.c. Try to use > : version 1.44.2.7 and see if it fixes this. This commit also broke > : kernel BOOTP/DHCP configuration. Maybe this need code needs to > : verify that the duplicate 0.0.0.0 addresses are okay and not report > : an error. If it does you might want to ping the authors of the commit. > > I have verified that ed and ep have similar problems in -stable. > Likely it is this change. I think we should back it out in -current > and in -stable personally, but haven't had time to pursue it. I can confirm that after going back to 1.44.2.7 on in.c and being up-to-date on if_wi.c, I no-longer have the DHCP problems, nor the interface hangs that I had previously. AlanC
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