From owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Mar 31 21:10:37 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: net@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id C1CECEB8 for ; Mon, 31 Mar 2014 21:10:37 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.rcn.com (smtp.rcn.com [69.168.97.78]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 876677A9 for ; Mon, 31 Mar 2014 21:10:37 +0000 (UTC) X_CMAE_Category: , , X-CNFS-Analysis: v=2.0 cv=buTO9Tmi c=1 sm=1 a=uNsD4W5u/UlQopoDAqU1YA==:17 a=fZBWQ0Qh6m4A:10 a=phkJtM7cgHoA:10 a=AaUjGI9IrlcA:10 a=IkcTkHD0fZMA:10 a=OA2lqS22AAAA:8 a=slE553JrixPIgnkwCocA:9 a=QEXdDO2ut3YA:10 a=uNsD4W5u/UlQopoDAqU1YA==:117 X-CM-Score: 0 X-Scanned-by: Cloudmark Authority Engine X-Authed-Username: cm9iZXJ0aHVmZkByY24uY29t Authentication-Results: smtp02.rcn.cmh.synacor.com smtp.mail=roberthuff@rcn.com; spf=neutral; sender-id=neutral Authentication-Results: smtp02.rcn.cmh.synacor.com header.from=roberthuff@rcn.com; sender-id=neutral Authentication-Results: smtp02.rcn.cmh.synacor.com smtp.user=roberthuff; auth=pass (PLAIN) Received-SPF: neutral (smtp02.rcn.cmh.synacor.com: 209.6.39.223 is neither permitted nor denied by domain of rcn.com) Received: from [209.6.39.223] ([209.6.39.223:1323] helo=[10.0.0.3]) by smtp.rcn.com (envelope-from ) (ecelerity 3.5.1.37854 r(Momo-dev:3.5.1.0)) with ESMTPA id EB/AA-59476-BC9D9335; Mon, 31 Mar 2014 17:10:36 -0400 Message-ID: <5339D9AD.4070307@rcn.com> Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2014 17:10:05 -0400 From: Robert Huff User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.4.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: questions about (system) dhclient Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Robert Huff , Alan Somers X-BeenThere: freebsd-net@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.17 Precedence: list List-Id: Networking and TCP/IP with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2014 21:10:37 -0000 >> This is the relevant portion of dhclient.conf: >> >> http://users.rcn.com/dhclient.conf > > File not found ooops - try "http://users.rcn.com/roberthuff/dhclient.conf" >> Upon execution, I get this: > >> http://users.rcn.com/roberthuff/dhcp_offer > >You're getting on offer on a completely different network than that >where the dhcp server resides. That's weird. Do you expect that to >happen? Yes. (Sometimes it's the same network, sometimes not.) > However, when I look at dhclient.leases: > > http://users.rcn.com/roberthuff/dhclient.leases.em0 > >This file is empty. Is it supposed to be? No. It should be there now. > Try running "service netif stop em0" to stop the background dhclient > process. Manually killed all dhclient processes. > Then run "dhclient -d" to force it to remain in the > foreground, and see if it prints any useful debugging info. Just the offer, ack, and bound-to/renewal lines. > It might > also be useful to run "tcpdump -i em0 host > 10.23.192.1" in another terminal. It may take a while before I can do that. Thanks for helping. Robert Huff