From owner-freebsd-stable Sat May 4 11: 5:56 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 6B4A837B419 for ; Sat, 4 May 2002 11:05:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ntplx.net (dhcp-209-54-72-109.ct.dsl.ntplx.com [209.54.72.109]) by mail.ntplx.net (8.11.6/8.11.4/NETPLEX) with ESMTP id g44I5FL28225; Sat, 4 May 2002 14:05:15 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <3CD422B2.45E4574D@ntplx.net> Date: Sat, 04 May 2002 14:04:34 -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: Cy Schubert - CITS Open Systems Group , "stable@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: Re: dhclient messages References: <200205041522.g44FMKAF002354@cwsys.cwsent.com> 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 Cy Schubert - CITS Open Systems Group wrote: > > In message <3CD3F16A.A348273A@ntplx.net>, Ted Sikora writes: > > David Wolfskill wrote: > > > > > > > > > * How does it affect "using a term"?? > > > > The messages pop up over the term session. > > Not a few probably 10 or so in succession... after a renew I guess. > > Seems to come every few minutes. Haven't timed it. > > > > Here's my recent lease info: > > > > renew 6 2002/5/4 09:51:28; > > rebind 6 2002/5/4 10:19:44; > > expire 6 2002/5/4 10:27:14; > > > > so every 8 minutes or so they come I would guess. > > Should I have the renew times set longer? The dhcp server is Solaris. > > Eight minutes does seem silly. If you manage the DHCP server, by all > means set the lease times longer. If you do not manage the the DHCP > server, the best you can do is request a longer lease time and hope > that you get it. I'll ask for a longer time. They may be working on it. 8 minutes seems crazy especially... almost suspicious after denying my request for an unlimited lease so I can use static routing(for some ancient Alpha machines). > > > > > I have 3 -stable servers and a workstation they are all doing it after I > > did a buildworld yesterday morning. Actually they first appeared after > > just a kernel build on one machine the day before. > > > > I had no messages on the console previously. > > I'm not experiencing this problem, however I don't know what DHCP > server is being used by my cable company. > > Is it possible that a change occurred on the DHCP server you use at or > around the time of your last buildworld? > Did not think to ask.. I'll find out. -- 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