Hello,

I have a nagging problem that has plauged my openbsd systems for YEARS.

Picture this, openbsd firewall three interfaces. xl0 is the outside interface which is connected to an business class road runner cable modem connection.

I can do dhclient xl0 at the console and grab an lease just fine from the cable modem. NOW, if I reboot the machine it will not get an lease. I have to manually do it from the console. The firewall/router machine is 3.9 at the moment but I have had this problem ever since 2.7. It isn't THAT big of a deal since the machine rarely needs rebooting but it sure can be annoying when there is a power outtage for instance.

# more /etc/hostname.xl0 <---outside interface connected to cable modem
dhcp

# more /etc/hostname.xl1
inet 192.168.1.1 255.255.255.0 192.168.1.255 description "Inside Interface"

# more /etc/hostname.xl2
inet 192.168.3.1 255.255.255.0 192.168.3.255 description "DMZ Interface"

/etc/dhclient.conf file exists and all values are commented out so we are using defaults!

When the daemon is running it gladly accepts a lease from the modem,

Oct 24 13:42:41 imelda dhclient[25525]: DHCPACK from 10.58.224.1
Oct 24 21:37:15 imelda dhclient[25525]: DHCPREQUEST on xl0 to 10.58.224.1 port 67

Only after manually pkill the dhclient then restarting it!

I am also running dhcpd on the firewall server. The dhcpd daemon is offering leases to two other interfaces and not to the outside interface (xl0) obviously.

Does anyone have any ideas?

Thanks.

Matt