On Fri, May 28, 2004 at 11:03:23AM -0700, Conrad T. Pino wrote:
> I'm using "NetBSD 1.6ZG (GENERIC.MP)" which
> is a stale version of -current.
 
I'm using 1.6.1/i386 (1) booted of a CD and (2) booted off a hard drive.


> My DHCP server is Windows 2000 server.
 
My DHCP server is the Linksys router.

> My "/etc/rc.conf" contains:
> 
> 	dhclient=YES
> 	dhclient_flags="fxp0"

Mine looks like that, but with dhclient_flags="-q ep0"

 
> My "/etc/ifconfig.fxp0" contains 1 line:
> 
> 	/etc:$ cat ifconfig.fxp0
> 	up
> 	/etc:$ 
 
As does mine.

> and I've never had a problem:
 
You are more fortunate than I, it appears.

> 	/etc:$ ifconfig -a
> 	fxp0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
> 	        address: 00:d0:b7:a7:34:6d
> 	        media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX full-duplex)
> 	        status: active
> 	        inet 192.168.41.22 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.41.255
> 	        inet6 fe80::2d0:b7ff:fea7:346d%fxp0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1
> 	lo0: flags=8009<UP,LOOPBACK,MULTICAST> mtu 33196
> 	        inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000
> 	        inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128
> 	        inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x2
> 

> Did you try a tcpdump on the interface while dhclient is running ?
> tcpdump -s 1500 -i <iface>

I did, and I have them available to view.

> Did you have to do some special setup on windows ?

Nope.

> Maybe it needs some
> option set to a magic string ...

I thought so as well, because this setup should work.

At: othyro.freeshell.org/dhcp/

there is the files:

dhclient.conf, dhclient-script, ifconfig.ep0, netstart.local, rc.conf, tcpd, tcpd2, tcpd3.

I let the machine boot to the hard drive with those files in /etc.
Then after getting NODHCPOFFERS, I killed dhclient and ran tcpdump -s 1500 -w tcpd -ep0 &.

No dice. Moved dhclient.conf and dhclient-script to .old files and reran tcpdump to get tcpd2 and tcpd3.

I tried many configurations with ifconfig. Tried to give it 192.168.1.100, which is what the machines gets under Win2k (I had to install something to get online).

I also tried to 'route add 192.168.1.1 default' and that didn't work either.

Maybe the files I've uploaded will give someone more of a clue than me. =|

Thanks to Mr. Boyer and Mr. Pino for responding.

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