Re: msk dhcpcd tcpdump problem

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost>]

On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 01:23:31PM +0100, Patrick Welche wrote:
> On NetBSD-5.99.37/i386, start with msk0 down on a 100 MBit link.
> 
>       dhcpcd msk0
> 
> gets brings up the interface and grabs a IP4 address. All OK.
> 
>       tcpdump -ni msk0
> 
> somehow causes dhcpcd to remove the IP4 address (so ifconfig shows no inet
> line, and status is "no network"), and tcpdump shows a new dhcp request.

Easy test: run "ifwatchd -v msk0" in a separate window. Does it print a
message when you start tcpdump?

Joerg