From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 27 12:26:54 2004 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 0FB7D16A4CE for ; Tue, 27 Jan 2004 12:26:54 -0800 (PST) Received: from heron.mail.pas.earthlink.net (heron.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.189]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 614A543D5C for ; Tue, 27 Jan 2004 12:26:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from algould@datawok.com) Received: from 23-101.lctv-b4.cablelynx.com ([24.204.23.101] helo=yoda.datawok.com) by heron.mail.pas.earthlink.net with asmtp (TLSv1:RC4-MD5:128) (Exim 3.33 #1) id 1AlZmW-0006Bm-00; Tue, 27 Jan 2004 12:25:56 -0800 From: "Andrew L. Gould" To: "Brian H" , lancelot@at-vantage.com Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2004 14:25:59 -0600 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.4 References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200401271425.59695.algould@datawok.com> X-ELNK-Trace: ee791d459e3d6817d780f4a490ca69564776905774d2ac4b553fe3e970de0b7816d47fbc1d9e4da0350badd9bab72f9c350badd9bab72f9c350badd9bab72f9c cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: DHCP 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: Tue, 27 Jan 2004 20:26:54 -0000 Do you, by chance, have DHCP and dhclient on the same machine? On Tuesday 27 January 2004 02:02 pm, Brian H wrote: > This is the error that I am getting. > "Can't bind to dhcp address: Address already in use" > My /etc/dhcp.conf file is empty. > > How can I ask the dhcp server for another address? > It doesn't apprear the the ip address in dhclient.leases > is in use. I am not sure what the problem is. > > Thanks, > > Brian > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Lance E. Lott [mailto:lancelot@at-vantage.com] > Sent: Tuesday, January 27, 2004 1:52 PM > To: Brian H > Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: RE: DHCP > > At 01:44 PM 1/27/2004, you wrote: > >Currently when I run dhclient on the console I nothing gets written to > >stdout, but the following message gets writen to /var/log/messages. Any > >thoughts ? > > > > > >If you did not get this software from ftp.isc.org, please > >get the latest from ftp.isc.org and install that before requesting help. > > > >If you did get this software from ftp.isc.org and have not > >yet read the README, please read it before requesting help. > >If you intend to request help from the dhcp-server@isc.org mailing list, > >please read the section on the README about submitting bug reports and > >requests for help. > > > >Please do not under any circumstances send requests for > >help directly to the authors of this software - please > >send them to the appropriate mailing list as described in > >the README file. > > > >exiting. > > > > It usually means you have a configuration problem with the dhcp.conf file > in /etc > > Look through the log again, and it should tell you (reasonably) what the > problem is. > > or > > Post your dhcp.conf file... > > Lance