From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 9 19:16:24 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2A72616A41A for ; Wed, 9 Jan 2008 19:16:24 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lists@jnielsen.net) Received: from ns1.jnielsen.net (ns1.jnielsen.net [69.55.238.237]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0BA7313C465 for ; Wed, 9 Jan 2008 19:16:24 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lists@jnielsen.net) Received: from ns1.jnielsen.net (jn@ns1 [69.55.238.237]) by ns1.jnielsen.net (8.12.9p2/8.12.9) with ESMTP id m09JGKQV053627; Wed, 9 Jan 2008 14:16:20 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from lists@jnielsen.net) Received: (from www@localhost) by ns1.jnielsen.net (8.12.9p2/8.12.9/Submit) id m09JGK5R053625; Wed, 9 Jan 2008 14:16:20 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from lists@jnielsen.net) X-Authentication-Warning: ns1.jnielsen.net: www set sender to lists@jnielsen.net using -f Received: from nc-2wac-zop06.wachovia.com (nc-2wac-zop06.wachovia.com [162.111.235.17]) by newwebmail.jnielsen.net (Horde MIME library) with HTTP; Wed, 09 Jan 2008 14:16:20 -0500 Message-ID: <20080109141620.lhpinsnpc00cgwwc@newwebmail.jnielsen.net> Date: Wed, 09 Jan 2008 14:16:20 -0500 From: John Nielsen To: Jeffrey Goldberg References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format="flowed" Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: Internet Messaging Program (IMP) H3 (4.0.4) / FreeBSD-4.9 X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV version 0.88.4, clamav-milter version 0.88.4 on ns1.jnielsen.net X-Virus-Status: Clean Cc: User questions Subject: Re: Frequent DHCP requests from Wii X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 09 Jan 2008 19:16:24 -0000 Quoting Jeffrey Goldberg : > This is particularly a FreeBSD question, but finding that there isn't > a newsgroup for DHCP (and I am running dhcpd on FreeBSD), I'll ask > here. > > We've got a Wii in the house, and I've got an entry for it in my dhcpd.conf > > host wii { hardware ethernet 00:19:1d:dd:66:d3; fixed-address > wii.ewd.goldmark.org; } > > which correctly resolves to 10.1.10.145 > > And everything works fine. However, the Wii keeps on making requests > every few minutes. Here is a bit of the dhcpd logs. The requests > come at irregular 1, 2, 5, and 9 minute intervals in this bit of the > log. > > Jan 9 11:59:08 kreacher dhcpd: DHCPREQUEST for 10.1.10.145 from > 00:19:1d:dd:66:d3 via em0 > Jan 9 11:59:08 kreacher dhcpd: DHCPACK on 10.1.10.145 to > 00:19:1d:dd: 66:d3 via em0 [additional log entries snipped] Was there a question in there somewhere? :) You could try putting a long-ish default-lease-time statement in your subnet clause in dhcpd.conf. See also the max-lease-time and min-lease-time statments in dhcpd.conf(5). If you have those already and the Wii isn't respecting them then that's an issue to take up with Nintendo. You could also consider setting the IP on the Wii statically (not sure if that's supported or if you move it around to different networks at all) or trying to adjust dhcpd's logging if that's all that's bothering you... JN