Re: DHCP no longer working for em(4)

On Tue, Apr 27, 2021 at 12:19:32PM +0100, Graham Perrin wrote:
> DHCP recently stopped working for em0.
> 
> HP EliteBook 8570p, recently probed:
> <https://bsd-hardware.info/?probe=e90abb54c9>
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> For what its worth, the problem _might_ have begun after a package 
> upgrade routine on Tuesday 20th April:
> 
> <https://bsd.to/nWBw/raw>
> 
> I updated the sytem (from n246123-21afed4b1d1 to n246330-5eb9c93a20d), 
> no improvement.

I am not seeing the issue.

In addition to my older laptop, I have been tracking head. stable/13,
and stable/12 on a newer laptop (a Dell Precision 7520); as its wireless
NIC is not currently supported in FreeBSD, I have been using its wired
NIC:

em0_at_pci0:0:31:6:        class=0x020000 rev=0x31 hdr=0x00 vendor=0x8086 device=0x15e3 subvendor=0x1028 subdevice=0x07b0
    vendor     = 'Intel Corporation'
    device     = 'Ethernet Connection (5) I219-LM'
    class      = network
    subclass   = ethernet

g1-48(14.0-C)[2] ifconfig em0
em0: flags=8863<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
        options=481249b<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING,VLAN_HWCSUM,LRO,WOL_MAGIC,VLAN_HWFILTER,NOMAP>
        ether 8c:ec:4b:e9:91:81
        inet 172.17.1.48 netmask 0xffff0000 broadcast 172.17.255.255
        media: Ethernet autoselect (1000baseT <full-duplex>)
        status: active
        nd6 options=29<PERFORMNUD,IFDISABLED,AUTO_LINKLOCAL>
g1-48(14.0-C)[3] 

As I type, it is running:

g1-48(14.0-C)[3] uname -aUK
FreeBSD g1-48.catwhisker.org 14.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 14.0-CURRENT #222 main-n246319-cd17774d30c6: Mon Apr 26 03:54:11 PDT 2021     root_at_g1-48.catwhisker.org:/common/S4/obj/usr/src/amd64.amd64/sys/CANARY  amd64 1400010 1400010

and in the middle of a source update to main-n246349-daa5350d0e0c.


> /etc/rc.conf
> 
> – includes the following lines:
> 
> ifconfig_em0="DHCP"
> create_args_wlan0="country GB regdomain etsi"
> wlans_iwn0="wlan0"
> ifconfig_wlan0="NOAUTO WPA SYNCDHCP"

g1-48(14.0-C)[7] egrep 'ifconfig|wlan' /etc/rc.conf | grep -v '^#'
ifconfig_em0="DHCP"
wlans_iwn0=wlan0
ifconfig_wlan0="WPA DHCP -ht"
netif_nic_seq="wlan0 em0"       # Try these NICs in this sequence,
g1-48(14.0-C)[8] 

> .... 

Peace,
david
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