Re: install/50832: NetBSD-7.0 iso won't acquire DHCPv4 lease in SmartOS' KVM (and more)

[James Blachly <james.blachly%gmail.com@localhost>]

Dear Joerg,

Can you provide details about the host and hypervisor?  Was the install from the ISO? 

In your working installation, presumably the device is vioif0 ?  

I also meant to add to the ticket, but accidentally got cut off, was that this does not seem to be just a DHCP problem; bringing the network up manually with ifconfig and ensuring correct static route in place, I still cannot reach the outside (except by ARP, see below).

ifconfig vioif0 inet4 192.168.1.7 netmask 255.255.255.0
result: success, but no host is ping-able, and pings to this host fail.

However tonight I discovered that ARP works in one direction: after bringing up the interface, and pinging from the outside (for example from my laptop on the same LAN), then re-run netstat -r on the NetBSD-7 machine, the IP and MAC address for my laptop now appear in the routing table.


However, if I ping FROM the netBSD machine, the MAC never appears in the routing table, only as “link#1” with the R flag (unreachable)

 
Kind regards
James


> On Feb 19, 2016, at 4:15 PM, Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost> wrote:
> 
> The following reply was made to PR install/50832; it has been noted by GNATS.
> 
> From: Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost>
> To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
> Cc: install-manager%netbsd.org@localhost, gnats-admin%netbsd.org@localhost,
> 	netbsd-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
> Subject: Re: install/50832: NetBSD-7.0 iso won't acquire DHCPv4 lease in
> SmartOS' KVM (and more)
> Date: Fri, 19 Feb 2016 22:14:31 +0100
> 
> On Fri, Feb 19, 2016 at 04:45:00AM +0000, james.blachly%gmail.com@localhost wrote:
>>> Description:
>> Using virtio network driver in SmartOS' KVM, NetBSD-7 can not acquire
>> a DHCPv4 lease ; it gives up and goes to link local address.
> 
> I have both 7.0RC1 and netbsd-7-0 instances happily using DHCP on
> virtio.
> 
> Joerg
>