Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2008 15:26:39 +0200 From: Mel <fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Nerius Landys <nlandys@gmail.com> Subject: Re: DHCP release/renew lease - elegant solution? Message-ID: <200810201526.39245.fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net> In-Reply-To: <560f92640810171424v7fd48462qb750cf40229884ac@mail.gmail.com> References: <560f92640810171424v7fd48462qb750cf40229884ac@mail.gmail.com>
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On Friday 17 October 2008 23:24:00 Nerius Landys wrote:
> I have an always-on FreeBSD box which is connected to the internet. My ISP
> is some cable company and the IP address is determined via DHCP; I used to
> always get the same IP address but recently the address seems to be
> changing very frequently whenever I reboot the machine.
>
> My problem is that recently, after being on for a day or so, the internet
> connection to the FreeBSD box breaks down, it stops working or becomes very
> intermittent/flaky. I then reboot the machine, and thereafter it usually
> uses a new IP address and the internet connection returns fo running fine.
> There is no need to reboot the cable modem.
If this is an always on machine, it makes no sense, unless the ISP is doing
agressive accounting on there IP's:
- give out a lease for x hours
- but invalidate it anyway after <x hours.
Doing a periodic dhclient -r would probably fix your problem, though the
correct solution would be to complain with your ISP and switch to the
competition if they don't get their stuff together.
--
Mel
Problem with today's modular software: they start with the modules
and never get to the software part.
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