Re: iwn and dhcpcd

[Patrick Welche <prlw1%cam.ac.uk@localhost>]

On Mon, May 16, 2016 at 03:32:03PM +0100, Roy Marples wrote:
> 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

Thanks for the work around for my duff router!

Patrick