From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Sep 5 17:15:41 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from femail30.sdc1.sfba.home.com (femail30.sdc1.sfba.home.com [24.254.60.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 529C637B407 for ; Wed, 5 Sep 2001 17:15:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from x1-6-00-50-ba-de-36-33.kico1.on.home.com ([24.141.119.162]) by femail30.sdc1.sfba.home.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.20 201-229-121-120-20010223) with ESMTP id <20010906001535.RRUO18117.femail30.sdc1.sfba.home.com@x1-6-00-50-ba-de-36-33.kico1.on.home.com>; Wed, 5 Sep 2001 17:15:35 -0700 Received: from localhost (genisis@localhost) by x1-6-00-50-ba-de-36-33.kico1.on.home.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f860KdO25376; Wed, 5 Sep 2001 20:20:42 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from genisis@istar.ca) X-Authentication-Warning: x1-6-00-50-ba-de-36-33.kico1.on.home.com: genisis owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2001 20:20:37 -0400 (EDT) From: Dru X-X-Sender: To: Bill Moran Cc: Cary , freebsd-questions Subject: Re: dhclient problems In-Reply-To: <01090519595600.00871@proxy.the-i-pa.com> Message-ID: <20010905201754.D25332-100000@x1-6-00-50-ba-de-36-33.kico1.on.home.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 On Wed, 5 Sep 2001, Bill Moran wrote: > On Wednesday 05 September 2001 16:22, Cary wrote: > > I've had my box up and running for about 2 weeks, no problems. About > > 5 days ago, I suddenly started getting the following message in my > > system logs: > > Sep 4 20:39:54 fledermaus dhclient: send_packet: Permission denied > > > > I have the kernel firewall (ipfw) installed and have used the rc.d > > script to start it up on bootup, as a client computer. But the > > dhcp.lease is recieved > > without any problem when I bootup, so I don't think ipfw is the source > > of the problem. If I turn my computer reboot my computer, it may or > > may not get the lease at first, but then it will. Afterwards, I can > > access the network and all, but then these messages start showing up > > again. My ability to get work done is not affected (that I've noticed) > > but it is very annoying to have to scroll through the syslogs and > > seeing this repeated ad infinitum. > > I hit this one a little while back with firewalls. If I'm remembering incorrectly, > someone else feel free to correct me. > When the machine first boots up, and it doesn't know who the DHCP > server will be, it does ethernet broadcasts to find a DHCP server and config > its networking. > However, once it's been running for a while and it's time to renew the > DHCP lease, it connects to the server in a different manner - which can > be adversely affected by firewall rules. > I don't remember the details (i.e. ports and firewall rules to allow DHCP) > but the way I figured it out was to run a sniffer (ethereal or tcpdump) and > see what was actually happening. You can do the same. Hi Cary, I second what Bill says; though it's hard to see what's blocking what without a look at your firewall rules. The following article might shed some light on what DHCP is doing: http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2001/06/01/FreeBSD_Basics.html If that doesn't help, send the output of "ipfw show" to the list. Dru To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message