From owner-freebsd-stable Fri May 31 14:12:23 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mail.ntplx.net (mail7.ntplx.net [204.213.176.181]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B39F837B40C for ; Fri, 31 May 2002 14:11:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ntplx.net (dhcp-209-54-72-110.ct.dsl.ntplx.com [209.54.72.110]) by mail.ntplx.net (8.11.6/8.11.4/NETPLEX) with ESMTP id g4VLBcD14076 for ; Fri, 31 May 2002 17:11:38 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <3CF7E836.742CD559@ntplx.net> Date: Fri, 31 May 2002 17:16:38 -0400 From: Ted Sikora X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.18 i686) X-Accept-Language: en-US,en-GB MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: Re: new dhcp client causing problems References: <1022872192.81856.2.camel@blue.mcneil.com> <2453.216.153.201.118.1022876310.squirrel@www.27in.tv> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG C J Michaels wrote: > > Sean McNeil said: > > Hi, > > > > I've noticed that I occasionally lose connections through my computer to > > the internet. This has been happening because the dhcp client is trying > > to change my ip to something bogus and resetting the ethernet: > > Can you give an example of the 'bogus' ip address it's trying to set? > What you have listed below (without any additional information) appears to > be valid. (Note: no ip address is actually listed.) > > > > > May 30 23:44:17 blue dhclient: New Network Number: 66.75.176.0 > > May 30 23:44:17 blue dhclient: New Broadcast Address: 255.255.255.255 > > Yes, I did note the broadcast address, my dhclient is pulling the same > broadcast addr (RoadRunner) and I have no problems. I believe this may > actually be an issue w/ a mis-configured dhcpd not dhclient. > > > May 31 02:38:07 blue su: sean to root on /dev/ttyp0 > > > > The previous dhcp client in 4.5 did not do this. It is only happening > > with the 4.6-RC. > > > > Cheers, > > Sean The default lease time has changed in the client. Does it on all my dhcp connected servers with -stable. Maybe adding a line like Cy Schubert suggested send requested-lease-time 172800 in dhclient.conf with unlimited lease might be a good idea or a commented out one explaining why. Nice to have options. -- Ted Sikora tsikora@unixos2.org http://unixos2.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message