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Date: Sat, 03 Nov 2007 22:09:02 -0400
From: "Lewis G Rosenthal" <os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com>
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Subject: [OS2Wireless] Lazy DHCP response over Wi-Fi: solved, I think

For those of you experiencing difficulty getting DHCP configuration over 
the Wi-Fi link (particularly using XWLAN), I think I may have found my 
trouble.

In my dhcpcd.cfg, I had the following logging options enabled:

numLogFiles   4
logFileSize   100
logFileName   dhcpcd.log
logItem       SYSERR
logItem       OBJERR
logItem       PROTERR
logItem       WARNING
logItem       EVENT
logItem       ACTION
logItem       INFO
logItem       ACNTING
logItem       TRACE

I must have turned these all on for some troubleshooting many, many 
moons ago. After turning them all off (prefix with a "#"), and turning 
off the following options I had set:

option 12 Apollo
option 3
option 6
option 15

I was able to boot and immediately get an IP (no routing or DNS info, 
but those are related to options 3 and 6). I turned on all my options 
with the exception of 15 (not sure I really need it), and things still 
work, even after a reboot (not just a reconfiguration from XWLAN).

This could be a GenMAC thing or an XWLAN thing (my wired interface is a 
Broadcom, and I use the native OS/2 driver for it; I'm not sure whether 
it would produce the same difficulty under GenMAC).

Prior to this, I would just open a window and call NICOFF.CMD to 
constantly restart DHCPCD until I picked up an address (usually two or 
three times). This behavior was consistent between AP's, too.

I'm interested to hear if anyone else with the same difficulties can 
roll back to a "stock" dhcpcd.cfg and confirm my findings.

Hope to see you *all* at Warpstock in a couple weeks!!!!

-- 
Lewis
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