Re: 5.3 + dhclient: bpf needed in kernel config?

From: Rob <spamrefuse_at_yahoo.com>
Date: Mon, 01 Nov 2004 20:48:50 +0900
Brooks Davis wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 01, 2004 at 07:57:16PM +0900, Rob wrote:
> 
>>I have left out bpf in the kernel config and
>>all of a sudden dhclient (for DHCP) exits with an
>>error message, complaining that bpf is not there?
>>
>>Since when (and why) is bpf needed by /sbin/dhclient?
> 
> 
> bpf has always been required to run dhclient.  We'd love to see that
> requirement go away, but we need to modify he network stack to allow
> programs to bind to an interface with a 0.0.0.0 address and no one has
> done so yet.

Aha. So I added bpf to my kernel config, recompiled and
installed everything again.

Yesterday this PC has been upgraded from 4.10 to most
recent 5.3. I have in /etc/rc.conf

    ifconfig_rl0="DHCP"

which worked jsut fine with 4.10, but seems to misserably
fail with 5.3.

Dhclient binds rl0 to 192.168.1.22 all the time, which
seems to be a kind of default for a failing dhclient.

Is something else, unusual, needed in 5.3, that is critical
to dhclient?

Rob.
Received on Mon Nov 01 2004 - 10:48:52 UTC

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