Q: I recently built a freebsd samba server for a friend. He has a connection via a Netgear mr814 router, and it seems the router will not find MAC address or route all traffic, unless they meet an address via DHCP. We have tried using an assigned address in rc.conf, but no joy trying to port 22 on the route from the WAN.
I left him in the entry for dhcp, and it worked OK after that.
Fast to today: After changing the hardware and building a custom kernel, dhclient is not a choice. We replace the motherboard, but everything remained the same. I can manually assign an IP and it works fine, but I can not remotely administer Boatshow router just not a mac addy that is not tied to a IP.
I dhclient.conf no change, and have the correct entries in the rc . conf. Any ideas?
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Re:Originally posted by: guy
you meant old, like 486? nah, it is a 586 at least;)
I meant old like sparc3/4 machines. 
Default kernel should be fine for now. After more reading and playing, custom kernels will be a lot easier.
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Re:you meant old, like 486? nah, it is a 586 at least;)
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Re:Originally posted by: guy
Yes it is old, hence the custom kernel. a 133 on 64 mb of 72 pin ram.
I said old, not mediocre.
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Re:Yes it is old, hence the custom kernel. a 133 on 64 mb of 72 pin ram.
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Re:Have him use the default kernel configuration when building new kernels. Its easier, and unless its a really old box, the customizations typically won't help enough to be worth the time and effort.
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Re:thanks guys! I will see if Ken left out the Bpf. He built that kernel while I did some other things on the box, so I will have to investigate it. ( gotta love those true multi-user operating systems)
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Re:On Linux, I think that DHCP needs the Packet Filter option. Don't know how that corresponds to FreeBSD, though – if at all.
edit: This old doc (http://people.freebsd.org/~dougb/dhcp.html) mentions the bpfilter psuedo-device. Maybe that's a lead…
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Re:If you messed with the kernel you probably left someting out that dhclient needs, since you're using FreeBSD I have no idea what that might be
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Re:up for another look…..n0c and nothinman are lurking……….
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Re:Any other ideas? could the NIC (intel pro 100) just not initialize sufficiently to get going for dhclient, if it ifconfigs fine manually? I am stumped by this one, and if the router behaved properly, it would not be a problem. I would rather have a fixed IP on a server any day.
Samba works perfectly on the lan, and ssh works fine on the lan, I am only stopped from remote access.
Re:It worked before the custom kernel build. Dhclient.conf was unchanged, but I rewrote it anyway to see. NIC works fine if I assign it an address manually, either via ifconfig or in rc.conf. Just quit doing the dhcp thing!
Re:has it ever worked? is your nic working? your dhclient.conf look good? etc, etc…
Re:No errors, only a lack of an addy. ifconfig shows all is well, except for the 0.0.0.0 part
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