From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Mar 25 23:37:48 2005 Return-Path: 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 2B97E16A4CE for ; Fri, 25 Mar 2005 23:37:48 +0000 (GMT) Received: from web26507.mail.ukl.yahoo.com (web26507.mail.ukl.yahoo.com [217.146.176.44]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 562A643D31 for ; Fri, 25 Mar 2005 23:37:47 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from bsdbod@yahoo.co.uk) Received: (qmail 4549 invoked by uid 60001); 25 Mar 2005 23:37:46 -0000 Message-ID: <20050325233746.4547.qmail@web26507.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> Received: from [62.55.150.153] by web26507.mail.ukl.yahoo.com via HTTP; Fri, 25 Mar 2005 23:37:46 GMT Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2005 23:37:46 +0000 (GMT) From: Tim Preece To: FreeBSD Questions MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Subject: dhclient where to get dhclient-2.0pl5 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2005 23:37:48 -0000 Hi fellow BSD'ers, I am having real problems with dhclient and connections dropping sporadically, sometimes a minute and others 10 hours or anything in between. The setup is 5.3 running PF, the box is connected to a router+modem running in half-bridge mode which requires DHCP. After a couple of weeks of searching and trying to establish whether the problem was my router, firewall, other security settings or the dhclient I have found David Gerard's workaround email titled: 'WORKAR?OUND: dhclient problems in 5.3-RELEASE'. In his email he mentions getting dhclient-2.0pl5 from isc.org which I decided to get, however on the site they are only offering versions 3.0.2 and 3.0.3b1. I am trying to keep the number of installed ports to a minimum on the server that needs to run the DHCP client, so I do not want to install much although I may install a different FTP client if needed. If I try and ftp to ftp.isc.org, the standard ftp client with FreeBSD does not seem to work with the site, I get 229 Entering Extended Passive Mode (|||24431|) 500 Bad EPRT protocol. 500 Illegal PORT command. 425 Use PORT or PASV first. and if I try PASSV I get ?Invalid command. So my questions are: o Is the dhclient-2.0pl5 in the ftp site ? o If so can I get ftp to work with the site (I am behind a pf firewall) with NAT ? o I can navigate the ftp site and maybe get so if I cannot get ftp to work with the site if someone could let me know the path, I might be able to get the file ? o Where else that is trusted may I get the src ? o Will version 3.0.2 also solve the problem ? Thanks for any help on this matter. Tim Preece Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com