[nfe] DHCP failure on 8-stable

enoch ixew at hotmail.com
Fri Mar 30 07:25:06 UTC 2012


Recently it became extremely difficult to pass the DHCP discovery step
on boot. Now I am using the buggy [nve] instead.

Can anyone help?

Thank you, Enoch.

uname -a
~~~~~~~~
FreeBSD dome 8.3-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 8.3-PRERELEASE #7: Thu Mar 29
14:37:00 EDT 2012     root at dome:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/DOME  amd64

nfe0 fails at DHCPDISCOVER.

ifconfig:

nfe0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
	options=82008<VLAN_MTU,WOL_MAGIC,LINKSTATE>
	ether 00:1f:bc:00:19:dc
	inet 0.0.0.0 netmask 0xff000000 broadcast 255.255.255.255
	media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX <full-duplex>)
	status: active

lspci:

00:14.0 Bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP51 Ethernet Controller (rev a3)



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