Hi, i have a problem with dhclient:
for example interface name eno52 (tg3, Broadcom Limited NetXtreme BCM5719 Gigabit Ethernet PCIe (rev 01) : root@********:~# dhclient eno52 -v Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client 4.3.5 Copyright 2004-2016 Internet Systems Consortium. All rights reserved. For info, please visit https://www.isc.org/software/dhcp/ Listening on LPF/eno52/3c:a8:2a:e7:87:bf Sending on LPF/eno52/3c:a8:2a:e7:87:bf Sending on Socket/fallback DHCPDISCOVER on eno52 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 4 DHCPDISCOVER on eno52 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 10 DHCPDISCOVER on eno52 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 7 DHCPDISCOVER on eno52 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 9 DHCPDISCOVER on eno52 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 15 DHCPDISCOVER on eno52 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 16 No DHCPOFFERS received. No working leases in persistent database - sleeping. tcpdump during dhclient doesn't show anything?!? root@*********:~# tcpdump -i eno52 tcpdump: verbose output suppressed, use -v or -vv for full protocol decode listening on eno52, link-type EN10MB (Ethernet), capture size 262144 bytes root@*******:~# ip addr show eno52 9: eno52: <NO-CARRIER,BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP> mtu 1500 qdisc mq state DOWN group default qlen 1000 link/ether 3c:a8:2a:e7:87:bf brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff interface eno52 seems to be disconnected but cable is plugged and working (i tried with other pc) obviously ethernet cable is connected... Debian 8 works fine with this hw Debian 9 doesn't work Server is ProLiant DL380 Gen9 (719064-B21) root@*******:~# lspci -v | grep -A10 Ethernet 02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Limited NetXtreme BCM5719 Gigabit Ethernet PCIe (rev 01) Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Ethernet 1Gb 4-port 331i Adapter Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 16, NUMA node 0 Memory at 92c90000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=64K] Memory at 92ca0000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=64K] Memory at 92cb0000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=64K] [virtual] Expansion ROM at 93100000 [disabled] [size=256K] Capabilities: [48] Power Management version 3 Capabilities: [50] Vital Product Data Capabilities: [58] MSI: Enable- Count=1/8 Maskable- 64bit+ Capabilities: [a0] MSI-X: Enable+ Count=17 Masked- Capabilities: [ac] Express Endpoint, MSI 00 -- 02:00.1 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Limited NetXtreme BCM5719 Gigabit Ethernet PCIe (rev 01) Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Ethernet 1Gb 4-port 331i Adapter Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 17, NUMA node 0 Memory at 92c60000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=64K] Memory at 92c70000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=64K] Memory at 92c80000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=64K] [virtual] Expansion ROM at 93140000 [disabled] [size=256K] Capabilities: [48] Power Management version 3 Capabilities: [50] Vital Product Data Capabilities: [58] MSI: Enable- Count=1/8 Maskable- 64bit+ Capabilities: [a0] MSI-X: Enable- Count=17 Masked- Capabilities: [ac] Express Endpoint, MSI 00 -- 02:00.2 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Limited NetXtreme BCM5719 Gigabit Ethernet PCIe (rev 01) Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Ethernet 1Gb 4-port 331i Adapter Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 16, NUMA node 0 Memory at 92c30000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=64K] Memory at 92c40000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=64K] Memory at 92c50000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=64K] [virtual] Expansion ROM at 93180000 [disabled] [size=256K] Capabilities: [48] Power Management version 3 Capabilities: [50] Vital Product Data Capabilities: [58] MSI: Enable- Count=1/8 Maskable- 64bit+ Capabilities: [a0] MSI-X: Enable- Count=17 Masked- Capabilities: [ac] Express Endpoint, MSI 00 -- 02:00.3 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Limited NetXtreme BCM5719 Gigabit Ethernet PCIe (rev 01) Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Ethernet 1Gb 4-port 331i Adapter Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 17, NUMA node 0 Memory at 92c00000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=64K] Memory at 92c10000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=64K] Memory at 92c20000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=64K] [virtual] Expansion ROM at 931c0000 [disabled] [size=256K] Capabilities: [48] Power Management version 3 Capabilities: [50] Vital Product Data Capabilities: [58] MSI: Enable- Count=1/8 Maskable- 64bit+ Capabilities: [a0] MSI-X: Enable- Count=17 Masked- Capabilities: [ac] Express Endpoint, MSI 00 -- 04:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Limited NetXtreme BCM5719 Gigabit Ethernet PCIe (rev 01) Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Ethernet 1Gb 4-port 331FLR Adapter Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 16, NUMA node 0 Memory at 92b90000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=64K] Memory at 92ba0000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=64K] Memory at 92bb0000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=64K] [virtual] Expansion ROM at 93000000 [disabled] [size=256K] Capabilities: [48] Power Management version 3 Capabilities: [50] Vital Product Data Capabilities: [58] MSI: Enable- Count=1/8 Maskable- 64bit+ Capabilities: [a0] MSI-X: Enable- Count=17 Masked- Capabilities: [ac] Express Endpoint, MSI 00 -- 04:00.1 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Limited NetXtreme BCM5719 Gigabit Ethernet PCIe (rev 01) Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Ethernet 1Gb 4-port 331FLR Adapter Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 17, NUMA node 0 Memory at 92b60000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=64K] Memory at 92b70000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=64K] Memory at 92b80000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=64K] [virtual] Expansion ROM at 93040000 [disabled] [size=256K] Capabilities: [48] Power Management version 3 Capabilities: [50] Vital Product Data Capabilities: [58] MSI: Enable- Count=1/8 Maskable- 64bit+ Capabilities: [a0] MSI-X: Enable- Count=17 Masked- Capabilities: [ac] Express Endpoint, MSI 00 -- 04:00.2 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Limited NetXtreme BCM5719 Gigabit Ethernet PCIe (rev 01) Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Ethernet 1Gb 4-port 331FLR Adapter Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 16, NUMA node 0 Memory at 92b30000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=64K] Memory at 92b40000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=64K] Memory at 92b50000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=64K] [virtual] Expansion ROM at 93080000 [disabled] [size=256K] Capabilities: [48] Power Management version 3 Capabilities: [50] Vital Product Data Capabilities: [58] MSI: Enable- Count=1/8 Maskable- 64bit+ Capabilities: [a0] MSI-X: Enable- Count=17 Masked- Capabilities: [ac] Express Endpoint, MSI 00 -- 04:00.3 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Limited NetXtreme BCM5719 Gigabit Ethernet PCIe (rev 01) Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Ethernet 1Gb 4-port 331FLR Adapter Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 17, NUMA node 0 Memory at 92b00000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=64K] Memory at 92b10000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=64K] Memory at 92b20000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=64K] [virtual] Expansion ROM at 930c0000 [disabled] [size=256K] Capabilities: [48] Power Management version 3 Capabilities: [50] Vital Product Data Capabilities: [58] MSI: Enable- Count=1/8 Maskable- 64bit+ Capabilities: [a0] MSI-X: Enable+ Count=17 Masked- Capabilities: [ac] Express Endpoint, MSI 00 if i use the same ethernet cable on my laptop all works fine... (DHCP lease and so on) i don't know if is a module problem...or? Can you help me? BR