DHCP fails after suspend/resume

Andreas Wetzel <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.freebsd.devel.mobile
Message-ID <[email protected]>
hi

I am having the problem, that after suspending and resuming, DHCP fails to get
an address.

The system is a ThinkPad T30 with an Atheros based mini-PCI wifi adapter and
FreeBSD 6.3-RELEASE installed. The wireless network is configured to use WPA2
with EAP-TTLS authentication. The server side also runs FreeBSD 6.3-RELEASE
using hostapd, freeradius and the ISC dhcp server.

Manually doing an /etc/rc.d/netif stop ath0 followed by /etc/rc.d/netif start
ath0 doesn't work either. When I reboot the ThinkPad, the machine gets an IP
address instantaneously.

Checking the logfiles on the server side, I can see, that the EAP negotiation
after the resume works just fine. Also using ethereal I can see that the DHCP
requests arrive on the server, and the server sends replies. But the client
does not seem to receive or react to those replies. I am not in to DHCP that
deep, but could this possibly be due to the server sending unicast replies
instead of broadcast? Is the client supposed to do a DHCPRELEASE before going
to sleep mode?

Windows 2000, which runs in a dual-boot configuration on the ThinkPad can
suspend/resume in the same setup without any problem, so I assume it's a
client side problem.

Any help would be appreciated.

-- 
Keep it icy man.
I don't want to end up a corpse before my time because you were daydreaming.
_______________________________________________
[email protected] mailing list
http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-mobile
To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
lmpx.com only provides a reader for public news (NNTP) servers. It is not affiliated with the servers or forums shown here and is not responsible for the content of articles, which is written by their respective authors.