Re: dhclient not working, wireless?

[Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>]

On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 10:20:55AM +0200, Riccardo Mottola wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> let me give some more information.
> 
> When I run on the wired ethernet "wm0", netstat shows:
> 
> Destination        Gateway            Flags    Refs      Use Mtu Interface
> default            192.168.1.254      UGS         -        - -  wm0
> 127/8              localhost          UGRS        -        - 33192  lo0
> localhost          localhost          UH          -        - 33192  lo0
> 192.168.1/24       link#1             UC          -        - -  wm0
> 192.168.1.254      00:a0:c5:44:07:5b  UHLc        -        - -  wm0
> 
> 
> 
> On 09/09/13 00:40, Riccardo Mottola wrote:
> >
> >to change interface from cable to wireless, I do run:
> >
> >sudo route delete default
> >sudo route delete 192.168.1.0
> >sudo ifconfig wm0 down
> 
> after executing this, my routing table is "clean":
> Destination        Gateway            Flags    Refs      Use    Mtu
> Interface
> 127/8              localhost          UGRS        -        -  33192 lo0
> localhost          localhost          UH          -        -  33192 lo0
> 
> >sudo ifconfig iwi0 ssid xxxxxxxxxx
> >sudo ifconfig iwi0 nwkey yyyyyyyyyyyyyy
> >sudo dhclient -v iwi0
> 
> This shows:
> DHCPREQUEST on iwi0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67
> DHCPACK from 192.168.1.254
> bound to 192.168.1.154 -- renewal in 116736 seconds
> 
> I can assume thus that the wireless card is working and communicated
> to the router and got an address, I'd say it is not a hardware
> problem, right?
> 
> I can ping 192.168.1.254, but
> 
> grid$ ping www.netbsd.org
> ping: Cannot resolve "www.netbsd.org" (Host name lookup failure)
> 
> However netstat:
> Destination        Gateway            Flags    Refs      Use    Mtu
> Interface
> default            192.168.1.254      UGS         -        -      -L wm0
> 127/8              localhost          UGRS        -        -  33192L lo0
> localhost          localhost          UH          -        -  33192L lo0
> 192.168.1/24       link#2             UC          -        -      -L iwi0
> 192.168.1.154      localhost          UGHS        -        -  33192L lo0
> 192.168.1.254      link#2             UHLc        -        -      -L iwi0
> 
> Why is the default route on wm0? I did run dhclient on iwi0!

what does ifconfig wm0 show ?
I suspect wm0 still has an address on 192.168.1/24
you should probably run
ifconfig wm0 inet delete
before running dhclient on iwi0

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>
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