Re: Ok, who broke interface autoconfiguration?

From: Barney Wolff <barney_at_databus.com>
Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2004 18:13:54 -0500
On Thu, Mar 25, 2004 at 05:35:01PM -0500, Andrew Gallatin wrote:
> 
> Daniel Eischen writes:
>  > 
>  > A co-worker was experiencing the same type of problem with em0
>  > and getting DHCP leases from a cable modem.  It was working
>  > then started having intermittent problems when he cvsup'd
>  > 2 or 3 weeks ago.  I just blamed it on the cable modem/company
>  > but perhaps there's something else at play?
> 
> I think so.  But I just spent the last 45 minutes trying
> to reproduce it and couldn't.  I'm sure the next time
> my wife boots her computer, though, it will fail.. :-(

I've had it happen a couple of times.  Dunno why.  rm of the leases
file in /var/db on the client fixed the symptom every time.

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