On 6 July 2016 at 14:05, <[email protected]> wrote: > I have just upgraded my server from 6.1.5 to 7.0.1 and I'm having > trouble with dhclient. My expectation is that the rc system will launch > dhclient early in the boot process and wait for it to finish before > moving on. This does not happen. Instead it rushes right into > launching daemons (which fills my logs with named complaints). > Sometimes it will complete acquisition after boot, but half the time it > fails completely and a "/etc/rc.d/dhclient restart" says that the > service is already stopped. This is a headless server so watching the > console is difficult. It has two interfaces, with only the external > using dhclient. The working rc.conf was not changed during the 7.0.1 > upgrade. > > A quick look over the NetBSD-7 and 7.0.1 release notices doesn't show me > any obvious reason for a change in behavior. Does anyone know what is > going on?
While it doesn't answer your question directly, NetBSD 7 has migrated to dhcpcd as the preferred DHCP client. Its actively developed and generally much nicer to use (the last point may be an opinion :)
