Re: iwn and dhcpcd

[Roy Marples <roy%marples.name@localhost>]

On 16/05/2016 15:28, Patrick Welche wrote:
> I have very recently started seeing on my -current/amd64 laptop:
>  
> iwn0: soliciting a DHCP lease
> iwn0: truncated packet (290) from 192.168.1.62  
> iwn0: truncated packet (290) from 192.168.1.62  
> ...
>  
> and dhcpcd gives up. I am very puzzled as:
>  
> - the wireless router and its settings haven't changed 
> - an ath0 -current/amd64 box which AFAIK I have updated as well is still happy
>   connecting to the same router 
> - if I manually ifconfig the laptop, all apparently seems well.
> -  $NetBSD: if_iwn.c,v 1.76 2015/09/22 23:23:06 nonaka Exp $ hasn't changed
> 
> This doesn't point to a problem anywhere in particular... Any guesses on
> what to try?

It seems there are many RFC incompliant routers out there.
http://roy.marples.name/projects/dhcpcd/vpatch?from=ac4e95dcbdeba0ea&to=3fd740f3ed17e902

Roy