From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 24 19: 5:30 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 54DE737B401 for ; Wed, 24 Jul 2002 19:05:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp-1.enteract.com (smtp-1.enteract.com [207.229.143.33]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8BA3743E7B for ; Wed, 24 Jul 2002 19:05:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jtm63@enteract.com) Received: from jamestown.21stcentury.net (24-148-71-84.na.21stcentury.net [24.148.71.84]) by smtp-1.enteract.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1A2A26C57 for ; Wed, 24 Jul 2002 21:05:26 -0500 (CDT) Received: from jamestown.21stcentury.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by jamestown.21stcentury.net (8.12.5/8.12.5) with ESMTP id g6P25P3w001067 for ; Wed, 24 Jul 2002 21:05:25 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from jtm@jamestown.21stcentury.net) Received: (from jtm@localhost) by jamestown.21stcentury.net (8.12.5/8.12.5/Submit) id g6P25N6G001064; Wed, 24 Jul 2002 21:05:23 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from jtm@localhost.21stcentury.net) To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: dhclient reports new IP every 15 min. From: James McNaughton Date: 24 Jul 2002 21:05:21 -0500 Message-ID: <867kjk8sv2.fsf@jamestown.21stcentury.net> Lines: 21 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.1 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 I just noticed that dhclient on my machine is reporting that I have new IP address every 15 minutes or so. However, it is the same address over and over. Observe: Jul 24 10:16:16 jamestown dhclient: New Broadcast Address: 169.254.0.255 Jul 24 10:42:04 jamestown dhclient: New Network Number: 169.254.0.0 Jul 24 10:42:04 jamestown dhclient: New Broadcast Address: 169.254.0.255 Jul 24 11:09:55 jamestown dhclient: New Network Number: 169.254.0.0 Jul 24 11:09:55 jamestown dhclient: New Broadcast Address: 169.254.0.255 Jul 24 11:36:41 jamestown dhclient: New Network Number: 169.254.0.0 Jul 24 11:36:41 jamestown dhclient: New Broadcast Address: 169.254.0.255 Jul 24 11:59:14 jamestown dhclient: New Network Number: 169.254.0.0 Jul 24 11:59:14 jamestown dhclient: New Broadcast Address: 169.254.0.255 Jul 24 12:22:04 jamestown dhclient: New Network Number: 169.254.0.0 I don't remember it doing this before and I don't look at the log very often. Is this normal? Is this my problem or the ISP's? TIA Jim To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message