From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 9 19:32:29 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 1AC5F16A469 for ; Wed, 9 Jan 2008 19:32:29 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from mail-out4.apple.com (mail-out4.apple.com [17.254.13.23]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0669213C442 for ; Wed, 9 Jan 2008 19:32:29 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from relay13.apple.com (relay13.apple.com [17.128.113.29]) by mail-out4.apple.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id EBC841E61B7F; Wed, 9 Jan 2008 11:32:28 -0800 (PST) Received: from relay13.apple.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by relay13.apple.com (Symantec Mail Security) with ESMTP id D823C28096; Wed, 9 Jan 2008 11:32:28 -0800 (PST) X-AuditID: 1180711d-9f0c1bb000005fea-38-4785214cf671 Received: from cswiger1.apple.com (cswiger1.apple.com [17.214.13.96]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by relay13.apple.com (Apple SCV relay) with ESMTP id B975F2808C; Wed, 9 Jan 2008 11:32:28 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <7E8E0248-9CA1-4EFB-BC4C-6381CC3CD13E@mac.com> From: Chuck Swiger To: Jeffrey Goldberg In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v915) Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2008 11:32:28 -0800 References: X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.915) X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAA== 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 19:32:29 -0000 On Jan 9, 2008, at 10:48 AM, Jeffrey Goldberg wrote: > 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. Do you have an entry like: default-lease-time 100000; ...in your dhcpd.conf? That might help convince the Wii to keep hold of its lease for a longer period of time without continuously renewing it every few minutes. Otherwise, talk to Sega or whoever about their DHCP client... -- -Chuck