dhcpcd-discuss

Hi

On 18/03/2012 11:15, Sergiu Copacinschi wrote:
> We have the following configuration: dhcpcd with FreeBSD using vlans
> (connected to switch with trunk port):

> When we try to obtain DHCP lease through vlan interface we get:
> # /sbin/dhcpcd -d -C resolv.conf -C mtu -G -C ntpd.conf -L em1.1424
> dhcpcd[94893]: version 5.5.4 starting
> dhcpcd[94893]: Kernel is not configured to accept IPv6 RAs
> dhcpcd[94893]: em1.1424: unknown hardware family
>
> and Dhcpdump says:
> # dhcpdump -i em1.1424
>  TIME: 2012-03-18 13:01:40.009
>  IP: 0.0.0.0 (00:0a:e4:80:a4:39) > 255.255.255.255 
> (ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff)
>  OP: 1 (BOOTPREQUEST)
>  HTYPE: 0 (wrong specified)
>  HLEN: 0
>  HOPS: 0
>
> Dhcp snooping is enabled on the switch, so dhcp lease wont work (same
> error appear).
>
> So question is:
> Is there any method to override this warning (unknown hardware 
> family)
> or to set it manually by the dhcpcd option.
> Maybe some OS setting need to be tunned.
>
> General question would be:
> Is dhcpcd working with subinterfaces (vlans) well on xBSD systems ?
>
> # dhcpcd --version
> dhcpcd 5.5.4
> Copyright (c) 2006-2012 Roy Marples
>
> # uname -a
> FreeBSD stats 9.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE #2: Wed Mar 14 12:51:18
> EET 2012 sc@stats:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/MYKERN amd64

That seems to be an issue with FreeBSD-9.
Using FreeBSD-7.1 dhcpcd-5.5.4 does not complain about this.
It seems that the ether address on the interface is not IFT_ETHER but 
something else.
Try the attached patch which should sow the interface type FreeBSD-9 
now says it is.

Thanks

Roy

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