Subject: NetBSD 3.0 dhclient
To: Rowdy <rowdy@netspace.net.au>
From: Pete Rushmere <pete@rushmere.org>
List: port-cobalt
Date: 03/12/2006 11:38:46
Hi All,

	Rowdy and myself have been having a discussion about the Qube not 
obtaining an IP address after installing from the 3.0 restore cd and 
thought it was time to get some help!

	After the initial reboot, dmesg shows:

<snip>
Starting network.
Configuring network interfaces:.
Starting dhclient.
Internet Software Consortium DHCP Client V3.0.1rc11
Copyright 1995-2002 Internet Software Consortium.
All rights reserved.
For info, please visit http://www.isc.org/products/DHCP

No bpf devices.   Please read the README section for your operating system.

If you did not get this software from ftp.isc.org, please
get the latest from ftp.isc.org and install that before
requesting help.

If you did get this software from ftp.isc.org and have not
yet read the README, please read it before requesting help.
If you intend to request help from the dhcp-server@isc.org
mailing list, please read the section on the README about
submitting bug reports and requests for help.

Please do not under any circumstances send requests for
help directly to the authors of this software - please
send them to the appropriate mailing list as described in
the README file.

exiting.
Building databases...
Starting syslogd.
<snip>

	So, dhclient starts and returns 'No bpf devices' and then exits. The 
kernel config shows an entry for bpfilter, which is enabled and a look in 
/dev does indeed confirm bpf0 - bpf7 exist.

	That's as far as we got, any ideas why dhclient says they don't exist?

Kind Regards,
Pete.