> On Jul 11, 2015, at 5:22 PM, Chris Buechler <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Sat, Jul 11, 2015 at 10:13 AM, Doug Lytle <[email protected]> wrote: >> Everyone, >> >> I talked a small automotive shop into replacing their aging pfSense computer >> with a GA-J1900N-D3V. They purchased an all-in-one unit from mini-box.com >> >> http://www.mini-box.com/SYS-M350-Gigabyte-J1900N-D3V-picoPSU-90-60W >> http://www.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=4918#ov >> >> I got it loaded up, restored their 2.2.3 config from the old system and took >> it over after work the following day. I ended up spending over an hour >> trying to get that little system to pick up a DHCP address for their Comcast >> router. >> >> I finally gave up and put the old system back in. >> >> Working on it today, I've tracked it down to pfSense not being able to spoof >> their MAC address. When trying to spoof any address, I get the below (ISC >> DHCP logs) >> > > Is it link cycling on that NIC? What type of NIC is it? There are > certain NICs that get weird and start link cycling with MAC spoofing > (possibly plus DHCP client). If that's the case it's not that it's not > accepting the lease, it is, but then loses link and regains it, which > triggers another DHCP request as part of the linkup process, which > cycles link again, rinse and repeat.
According to the spec page he linked to: " • 2 x Realtek® GbE LAN chips (10/100/1000 Mbit)" _______________________________________________ pfSense mailing list https://lists.pfsense.org/mailman/listinfo/list Support the project with Gold! https://pfsense.org/gold
