From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Sep 13 9: 3:36 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 7E3B837B400 for ; Fri, 13 Sep 2002 09:03:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dotforward.digi.com (dotforward.digi.com [204.221.110.21]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DF54443E7B for ; Fri, 13 Sep 2002 09:03:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Cameron_Haegle@digi.com) Received: by dotforward.digi.com with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) id ; Fri, 13 Sep 2002 11:03:31 -0500 Message-ID: From: Cameron Haegle To: 'Ceri Davies' Cc: "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" Subject: RE: Increasing dhclient's maximum hop value Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2002 11:03:26 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" 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 Yeah, you would think that they should install a relay server, but since their Windows and Mac customers are not having any problems, they likely would not feel the need. Only their non-Win/MAC customers are having trouble and when it comes to support they are quick to tell you that your OS is unsupported. Of course, they probably would have some other lame excuse for not installing one. I think that I have found my resolution. Thanks for the response. Cameron -----Original Message----- From: Ceri Davies [mailto:setantae@submonkey.net] Sent: Friday, September 13, 2002 10:59 AM To: Cameron Haegle Cc: 'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org' Subject: Re: Increasing dhclient's maximum hop value 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