From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jul 25 0:42:24 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 8990A37B400 for ; Thu, 25 Jul 2002 00:42:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from chen.org.nz (chen.org.nz [210.54.19.51]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A4E8F43E7B for ; Thu, 25 Jul 2002 00:42:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jonc@chen.org.nz) Received: from grimoire.chen.org.nz (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by chen.org.nz (8.12.5/8.12.5) with ESMTP id g6P7g1Ud037358; Thu, 25 Jul 2002 19:42:01 +1200 (NZST) (envelope-from jonc@grimoire.chen.org.nz) Received: (from jonc@localhost) by grimoire.chen.org.nz (8.12.5/8.12.5/Submit) id g6P7g1IU037357; Thu, 25 Jul 2002 19:42:01 +1200 (NZST) (envelope-from jonc) Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2002 19:42:01 +1200 From: Jonathan Chen To: James McNaughton Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: dhclient reports new IP every 15 min. Message-ID: <20020725074201.GB37283@grimoire.chen.org.nz> References: <867kjk8sv2.fsf@jamestown.21stcentury.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <867kjk8sv2.fsf@jamestown.21stcentury.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i 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, Jul 24, 2002 at 09:05:21PM -0500, James McNaughton wrote: > 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? Very likely your ISP's. They've configured a very short default lease time - you could try telling them about it. -- Jonathan Chen ---------------------------------------------------------------------- "Irrationality is the square root of all evil" - Douglas Hofstadter To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message