On Sat 26 Oct 2002 at 16:23:32 +0200, Olaf Seibert wrote:
> After some headscratching, I added "attach xq0 ne0" to my rc script, and
> then it worked!

I was too quick: starting dhclient gave me this:

# dhclient            
Internet Software Consortium DHCP Client V3.0rc10
Copyright 1995-2001 Internet Software Consortium.
All rights reserved.
For info, please visit http://www.isc.org/products/DHCP

qe0: discarding oversize frame (len=1980)
qe0: discarding oversize frame (len=1980)
qe0: discarding oversize frame (len=1980)
qe0: discarding oversize frame (len=1980)
qe0: discarding oversize frame (len=1980)
Listening on BPF/qe0/08:00:2b:aa:bb:cc
Sending on   BPF/qe0/08:00:2b:aa:bb:cc
Sending on   Socket/fallback
DHCPDISCOVER on qe0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 6
qe0: xmit logic died, resetting...
qe0: discarding oversize frame (len=1980)
Oct 25 09:30:06  last message repeated 5 times
Oct 25 09:30:11  /netbsd: qe0: xmit logic died, resetting...
Oct 25 09:30:11  /netbsd: qe0: discarding oversize frame (len=1980)
DHCPDISCOVER on qe0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 11
qe0: xmit logic died, resetting...
qe0: discarding oversize frame (len=1980)
Oct 25 09:30:16  /netbsd: qe0: xmit logic died, resetting...
Oct 25 09:30:16  /netbsd: qe0: discarding oversize frame (len=1980)
DHCPDISCOVER on qe0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 9
^C
# qe0: xmit logic died, resetting...
qe0: discarding oversize frame (len=1980)
Oct 25 09:30:27  /netbsd: qe0: xmit logic died, resetting...

A tcpdump on ne0 does not show any packets actually being sent (but then
I may be looking wrong of course).

-Olaf.
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