Date: Sun, 22 Jan 2006 14:18:28 -0800 From: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> To: "Kelly D. Grills" <kdgrills@the-grills.com>, Forrest Aldrich <forrie@forrie.com> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: dhclient wedged Message-ID: <20060122221828.GA7703@odin.ac.hmc.edu> In-Reply-To: <20060122155131.GA823@the-grills.com> References: <43D339CC.3020204@forrie.com> <20060122155131.GA823@the-grills.com>
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--DocE+STaALJfprDB Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sun, Jan 22, 2006 at 09:51:43AM -0600, Kelly D. Grills wrote: > On Sun, Jan 22, 2006 at 02:52:44AM -0500, Forrest Aldrich wrote: > >=20 > > I reported this problem a few OS versions back... pre-6. I'm on=20 > > FreeBSD-6-STABLE, and I've found the dhclient once again "wedged" in a= =20 > > mode that was eating a lot of CPU. =20 > >=20 > > The solution is to kill it, and restart. > >=20 > > I'm on Comcast's network, so I don't really know if their DHCP server i= s=20 > > doing something that FreeBSD's stock dhclient doesn't like; however, I= =20 > > wonder if someone else has noticed this problem, etc. > >=20 > Yes, I've also had the same problem (6.0-RELEASE), on Comcast also. > I installed isc-dhcp3-client-3.0.3_1 from ports and haven't had a=20 > problem since. (crossing fingers ;=3D) This definitly sounds like something particular to your dhcp servers. It would be nice if we could fix it, but without some debugging help that's going to be pretty much impossible. If you can recompile dhclient with debugging symbols and when it goes into a spin, use the debugger to figure out where it's spinning, that would be useful. See this post for details: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2005-August/054224.html -- Brooks --=20 Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. PGP fingerprint 655D 519C 26A7 82E7 2529 9BF0 5D8E 8BE9 F238 1AD4 --DocE+STaALJfprDB Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFD1ASzXY6L6fI4GtQRAnEEAJ9yI4kGEdo/izD3o9nbF3H1N3o+aQCeNy56 cCiJM/ok+wbMj4Feky6Q1I0= =d59n -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --DocE+STaALJfprDB--
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