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Subject: Re: dhclient ignoring link on wi0
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On Monday 02 January 2006 18:40, Benjamin Close wrote:

> >Has anyone looked into this?  This is on 6.0-p1.
>
> I have a slightly different but some what related issue. I can't get an
> initial IP.
> The ironic thing is sometimes I can, other times I can't. It seems to be
> related to whether the lease has expired on the server or not.
> Commenting out line 274 in dhclient.c seems to fix the problem as a
> temporary solution, but it's not the correct fix.
> There was one point after the dhcp import where things worked but it
> might have been luck.
>
On 6.0-STABLE (whould this be forwarded to -stable as well?) I have had a 
problem with dhclient not renewing the address when the lease expires. Note, 
I am using dhclient on dc0.  My fix is to kill dhclient and then restart it.
-- 
Jonathan Fosburgh