From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Sep 11 18:53:58 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 878F837B400 for ; Wed, 11 Sep 2002 18:53:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from tomts12-srv.bellnexxia.net (tomts12.bellnexxia.net [209.226.175.56]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B08DD43E4A for ; Wed, 11 Sep 2002 18:53:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from matt@gsicomp.on.ca) Received: from xena.gsicomp.on.ca ([65.95.177.86]) by tomts12-srv.bellnexxia.net (InterMail vM.5.01.04.19 201-253-122-122-119-20020516) with ESMTP id <20020912015352.VETS4068.tomts12-srv.bellnexxia.net@xena.gsicomp.on.ca>; Wed, 11 Sep 2002 21:53:52 -0400 Received: from hermes (hermes.gsicomp.on.ca [192.168.0.18]) by xena.gsicomp.on.ca (8.11.3/8.11.3) with SMTP id g8C0e2X90298; Wed, 11 Sep 2002 20:40:02 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from matt@gsicomp.on.ca) Message-ID: <00d501c259ff$3eeae830$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca> From: "Matthew Emmerton" To: "Cameron Haegle" , References: Subject: Re: Trouble with DHCP client Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2002 21:53:52 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4807.1700 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4910.0300 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Well, I do appreciate all of the responses I received regarding my systems inability to successfully get dhclient to obtain an address from my cable provider. > > I have tried everyone's suggestions, but I still have not gotten my system connected to the Internet. > > One thing I just now realized is that dhclient is outputting to /var/log/messages, big DUH! The message I am getting is "Can't bind to dhcp address. Address already in use." I am presently searching on any and all search engines for clues as to what this may mean, but I have not found anything as of yet. This means that a DHCP client program is already running on your system. Do a 'ps -ax | grep dh' to see if dhclient is already running. If it is, then kill it and start dhclient manually. -- Matt Emmerton To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message