Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2004 10:29:01 +1030 From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: "David W. Hankins" <David_Hankins@isc.org>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: dhclient can't get a DHCP lease.. Message-ID: <200402031029.01379.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <20040202173352.GA9816@isc.org> References: <200402021100.12106.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> <20040202173352.GA9816@isc.org>
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On Tuesday 03 February 2004 04:03, David W. Hankins wrote: > it would have been nice to have gotten a before-n-after on > /var/db/dhclient.leases. my only guess would be that yours was > somehow corrupted. Hmm, that sounds plausible :) > > DHCP server is FreeBSD with isc-dhcp3-3.0.1.r9 which hasn't changed for a > > while. > > just a side-note...if you had 'authoritative;' configured, it would send > a NAK upon the first REQ for an unknown address. this would send clients > back to init state much more rapidly than your experience. It is marked authoritative.. > my guess would be that after reaching the request timeout, dhclient entered > the address-selection loop (in dhclient's case, it picks the first one that > got ACK'd on the list and throws out all else), and since that NULL address > was the only lease and wasn't ACK'd, it exited the loop without picking a > lease. > > when that happens, dhclient goes back to init state to get new leases. Ahh OK. > if 'all morning' was an extended period, then i presume you were > interrupting dhclient when you realized it was not working right, or > have configured a large reboot timeout in etc/dhclient.conf. > > the default reboot timeout is 10 seconds. I haven't set a longer timeout, and I did wait longer than 10 seconds, but less than a minute or so.. Guess I probably should have just left it. Thanks for the information. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 9A8C 569F 685A D928 5140 AE4B 319B 41F4 5D17 FDD5
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