From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 6 15: 4:45 2003 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 03FAC37B401 for ; Mon, 6 Jan 2003 15:04:44 -0800 (PST) Received: from pd3mo2so.prod.shaw.ca (shawidc-mo1.cg.shawcable.net [24.71.223.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 041B043E4A for ; Mon, 6 Jan 2003 15:04:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from robin@damm.ca) Received: from pd4mr3so.prod.shaw.ca (pd4mr3so-qfe3.prod.shaw.ca [10.0.141.214]) by l-daemon (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.1 HotFix 0.8 (built May 12 2002)) with ESMTP id <0H8B00BAUERPAI@l-daemon> for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Mon, 06 Jan 2003 16:04:37 -0700 (MST) Received: from pn2ml2so.prod.shaw.ca (pn2ml2so-qfe0.prod.shaw.ca [10.0.121.146]) by l-daemon (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.1 HotFix 0.6 (built Apr 26 2002)) with ESMTP id <0H8B00AO9ERPL5@l-daemon> for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Mon, 06 Jan 2003 16:04:37 -0700 (MST) Received: from lulu.bad.dog (h24-82-238-48.wp.shawcable.net [24.82.238.48]) by l-daemon (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.1 HotFix 0.8 (built May 12 2002)) with ESMTP id <0H8B00FQFEROLJ@l-daemon> for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Mon, 06 Jan 2003 16:04:37 -0700 (MST) Received: from lulu.bad.dog (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by lulu.bad.dog (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h06N535I001269; Mon, 06 Jan 2003 17:05:03 -0600 (CST envelope-from robin@damm.ca) Received: (from robin@localhost) by lulu.bad.dog (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id h06N53J1001268; Mon, 06 Jan 2003 17:05:03 -0600 (CST) Date: Mon, 06 Jan 2003 17:05:03 -0600 From: Robin Damm Subject: Re: dhclient - no DHCPOFFERS received. In-reply-to: <20030106211835.GA23657@lewiz.org> To: lewiz Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mail-Followup-To: lewiz , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Message-id: <20030106230503.GA1226@lulu.bad.dog> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i References: <20030106211835.GA23657@lewiz.org> X-Authentication-warning: lulu.bad.dog: robin set sender to robin@damm.ca using -f Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Jan 06, 2003 at 09:18:36PM +0000, lewiz wrote: > Hi, > > Just recently I've found my laptop has been taking a while to obtain a > lease. I turned on all logging to the console and found the following > (modified a bit): > > dhclient: DHCPREQUEST on ep0 to 255.255.255.255.0 port 67 > dhclient: Trying media "media 10base2/BNC" 1 > dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on ep0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 6 > > At this point a series of ``Trying media...'' and ``DHCPDISCOVERER'' > are repeated (only the interval changed - 6, 12, 14, 18 then 6). > > dhclient: No DHCPOFFERS received.. > dhclient: Trying recorder lease 192.168.0.10 > > It looks to me like the DHCP server is not responding. Is this the > case? I've verified that the DHCP server is working (another machine > has no problems obtaining a lease). Any ideas? I'm assuming the client eventually obtains a lease. Does the problem persist if you manually release/renew the IP? # dhclient -r # dhclient ep0 A cache problem perhaps? -- Robin Damm To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message