Date: 23 Nov 2004 09:17:50 -0500 From: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org> To: Christopher Illies <christopher.illies@molmed.ki.se> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: annoying dhclient error messages Message-ID: <44r7mkfy41.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> In-Reply-To: <20041122130834.GA73132@Klabautermann.ks.se> References: <20041122130834.GA73132@Klabautermann.ks.se>
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Christopher Illies <christopher.illies@molmed.ki.se> writes: > I recently installed FreeBSD 5.3 on my desktop at work. DHCP was > configured with sysinstall (/etc/rc.conf: ifconfig_fxp0="DHCP"), and > /etc/dhclient.conf is empty. In fact I do have a good network > connection. The problem is that I get the following annoying error > messages about every two to five minutes: > > Nov 13 13:43:59 Klabautermann dhclient: slp-directory-agent: 4 extra > bytes at end of array > Nov 13 13:43:59 Klabautermann last message repeated 2 times > Nov 13 13:43:59 Klabautermann dhclient: parse_option_param: Bad format > a > Nov 13 13:46:26 Klabautermann dhclient: slp-directory-agent: 4 extra > bytes at end of array > Nov 13 13:46:26 Klabautermann last message repeated 2 times > Nov 13 13:46:26 Klabautermann dhclient: parse_option_param: Bad format > a > > These messages are more a nuisance than anything else, still I would > like to get rid of them. I updated the system last week (tag=RELENG_5), > but that did not help. Interestingly, I do not see these messages when > running Debian GNU/Linux on the very same computer. Google did not > reveal anything helpful. This really does look like the server is sending out some bad parameters. Probably you were using a different DHCP client on Linux. I'd suggest just changing the syslog configuration to filter those into a new log file, and block them from the console. Remember to check the file once in a while.
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