i am on the road at the moment, staying at various hostels. more often than not, i can connect my openbsd netbook (run0) to these networks. the current hostel however is not one of those.
i am staying here only until tomorrow, so i wont be able to test anything later but i still want to send this email because this is something i have never seen before and i am curious what others think, and what are possible ways to diagnose. so there is the router, some model made by SHENZEN GONGJIN electronics (192.168.1.1), a windows notebook, and a puffy notebook. i am running tcpdump on puffy and windump.exe on the win notebook side by side looking at traffic on ports 67 and 68. i can clearly see the whole hostel (including my android phones and the win notebook) asking and getting leases on both notebooks. the WEP password must be correct because i can see the cleartext packets in puffy:tcpdump. on puffy, i can also see the packets generated by my own dhclient, but those never receive any answer from the router. first i thought dhclient does not speak chinese, but here is the vampire looking in the mirror: windump does NOT see those packets and so it could be likely that the router does not see them either. what is going on? someone must be lying.. if tcpdump shows them, but they are not in the air, where are they? -f ps. netstat -i shows some errors: 3 Ierrs, 4 Oerrs dont know if its connected to this. ps2. pf is disabled, but i had only the default config file anyway, and it wasn't an issue before. -- if you see an onion ring, answer it.
