From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Sep 13 8:59:28 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 1DED737B400 for ; Fri, 13 Sep 2002 08:59:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rhadamanth.submonkey.net (pc2-cdif2-4-cust102.cdf.cable.ntl.com [80.4.11.102]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3623143E4A for ; Fri, 13 Sep 2002 08:59:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from setantae@submonkey.net) Received: from setantae by rhadamanth.submonkey.net with local (Exim 4.10) id 17psqq-000L5n-00; Fri, 13 Sep 2002 16:59:24 +0100 Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2002 16:59:23 +0100 From: Ceri Davies To: Cameron Haegle Cc: "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" Subject: Re: Increasing dhclient's maximum hop value Message-ID: <20020913155923.GA69386@submonkey.net> Mail-Followup-To: Ceri Davies , Cameron Haegle , "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-message-flag: All your linuxconf-configured redhat are belong to us. User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i 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 Fri, Sep 13, 2002 at 09:58:05AM -0500, Cameron Haegle wrote: > While all suggestions were considered and acted upon, none of them proved > fruitful. Finally, yesterday, my ISP responded to an e-mail I had sent them > this pst weekend. > > According to them this problem has been reported by several other customer > using Unix boxes. Per their staff, due the restructuring of the network the > DHCP server could be as far away as 20 hops. I am told that dhclient has > some hard-coded hops maximum of 16. It has been recommended that I try to > increase this value to 20 and try again. They should consider installing a dhcrelay server if it's causing their customers problems. Ceri -- you can't see when light's so strong you can't see when light is gone To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message