Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2009 12:08:39 -0600 From: Brooks Davis <brooks@freebsd.org> To: Peter Ankerst?l <peter@pean.org> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: dhclient cant renew lease. Message-ID: <20090223180839.GA78235@lor.one-eyed-alien.net> In-Reply-To: <17C37DBA-E596-41FB-990C-1538800F2766@pean.org> References: <17C37DBA-E596-41FB-990C-1538800F2766@pean.org>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 06:40:15PM +0100, Peter Ankerst?l wrote: > Hi > Im running FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE on my gateway and for the last week or so it > cant renew its dhcp-lease. > > At boot-time it sends a request to broadcast: DHCPREQUEST on fxp0 to > 255.255.255.255 port 67 > And then it gets an DHCPACK from the gateway. (not 172.21.248.127) > > But then the machine tries to renew the lease I keep getting messages like > this: > Feb 23 18:29:06 cone dhclient[1623]: DHCPREQUEST on fxp0 to 172.21.248.127 > port 67 > Feb 23 18:29:06 cone dhclient[1623]: SENDING DIRECT > Feb 23 18:29:33 cone dhclient[1623]: DHCPREQUEST on fxp0 to 172.21.248.127 > port 67 > Feb 23 18:29:33 cone dhclient[1623]: SENDING DIRECT > > until the lease runs out and then the connection drops. > I guess 172.21.248.127 is the real dhcp-server. > > A 'dhclient fxp0' sends a new request to 255.255.255.255 and it immediately > fixes the connection. You may be seeing the issue in bin/96018. If so, switching to the dhclient from 7.1 should fix it. -- Brooks [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFJouYmXY6L6fI4GtQRApulAKDb0iCLDf8t5iBeU3T4rCtMptCVGACgsUHk FZHEDkcLdUVorHW0iViplI0= =7SRZ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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