From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 9 18:48:51 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 44F7916A418 for ; Wed, 9 Jan 2008 18:48:51 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jeffrey@goldmark.org) Received: from out5.smtp.messagingengine.com (out5.smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.29]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 20A6D13C469 for ; Wed, 9 Jan 2008 18:48:51 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jeffrey@goldmark.org) Received: from compute2.internal (compute2.internal [10.202.2.42]) by out1.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id C8D688707C for ; Wed, 9 Jan 2008 13:48:50 -0500 (EST) Received: from heartbeat1.messagingengine.com ([10.202.2.160]) by compute2.internal (MEProxy); Wed, 09 Jan 2008 13:48:50 -0500 X-Sasl-enc: dZPdeDgCrJcNBp9Q10ro+4iuchmCYuqNnpz0kEkckBNG 1199904530 Received: from hagrid.ewd.goldmark.org (n114.ewd.goldmark.org [72.64.118.114]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6A9C4C76D for ; Wed, 9 Jan 2008 13:48:50 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: From: Jeffrey Goldberg To: User questions Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v915) Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2008 12:48:49 -0600 X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.915) Subject: Frequent DHCP requests from Wii X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 09 Jan 2008 18:48:51 -0000 This is particularly a FreeBSD question, but finding that there isn't a newsgroup for DHCP (and I am running dhcpd on FreeBSD), I'll ask here. We've got a Wii in the house, and I've got an entry for it in my dhcpd.conf host wii { hardware ethernet 00:19:1d:dd:66:d3; fixed-address wii.ewd.goldmark.org; } which correctly resolves to 10.1.10.145 And everything works fine. However, the Wii keeps on making requests every few minutes. Here is a bit of the dhcpd logs. The requests come at irregular 1, 2, 5, and 9 minute intervals in this bit of the log. Jan 9 11:59:08 kreacher dhcpd: DHCPREQUEST for 10.1.10.145 from 00:19:1d:dd:66:d3 via em0 Jan 9 11:59:08 kreacher dhcpd: DHCPACK on 10.1.10.145 to 00:19:1d:dd: 66:d3 via em0 Jan 9 12:01:08 kreacher dhcpd: DHCPREQUEST for 10.1.10.145 from 00:19:1d:dd:66:d3 via em0 Jan 9 12:01:08 kreacher dhcpd: DHCPACK on 10.1.10.145 to 00:19:1d:dd: 66:d3 via em0 Jan 9 12:07:07 kreacher dhcpd: DHCPREQUEST for 10.1.10.145 from 00:19:1d:dd:66:d3 via em0 Jan 9 12:07:07 kreacher dhcpd: DHCPACK on 10.1.10.145 to 00:19:1d:dd: 66:d3 via em0 Jan 9 12:12:08 kreacher dhcpd: DHCPREQUEST for 10.1.10.145 from 00:19:1d:dd:66:d3 via em0 Jan 9 12:12:08 kreacher dhcpd: DHCPACK on 10.1.10.145 to 00:19:1d:dd: 66:d3 via em0 Jan 9 12:14:08 kreacher dhcpd: DHCPREQUEST for 10.1.10.145 from 00:19:1d:dd:66:d3 via em0 Jan 9 12:14:08 kreacher dhcpd: DHCPACK on 10.1.10.145 to 00:19:1d:dd: 66:d3 via em0 Jan 9 12:17:08 kreacher dhcpd: DHCPREQUEST for 10.1.10.145 from 00:19:1d:dd:66:d3 via em0 Jan 9 12:17:08 kreacher dhcpd: DHCPACK on 10.1.10.145 to 00:19:1d:dd: 66:d3 via em0 Jan 9 12:25:08 kreacher dhcpd: DHCPREQUEST for 10.1.10.145 from 00:19:1d:dd:66:d3 via em0 Jan 9 12:25:08 kreacher dhcpd: DHCPACK on 10.1.10.145 to 00:19:1d:dd: 66:d3 via em0 Jan 9 12:27:08 kreacher dhcpd: DHCPREQUEST for 10.1.10.145 from 00:19:1d:dd:66:d3 via em0 Jan 9 12:27:08 kreacher dhcpd: DHCPACK on 10.1.10.145 to 00:19:1d:dd: 66:d3 via em0 Jan 9 12:36:08 kreacher dhcpd: DHCPREQUEST for 10.1.10.145 from 00:19:1d:dd:66:d3 via em0 Jan 9 12:36:08 kreacher dhcpd: DHCPACK on 10.1.10.145 to 00:19:1d:dd: 66:d3 via em0 Jan 9 12:37:08 kreacher dhcpd: DHCPREQUEST for 10.1.10.145 from 00:19:1d:dd:66:d3 via em0 Jan 9 12:37:08 kreacher dhcpd: DHCPACK on 10.1.10.145 to 00:19:1d:dd: 66:d3 via em0 Jan 9 12:38:08 kreacher dhcpd: DHCPREQUEST for 10.1.10.145 from 00:19:1d:dd:66:d3 via em0 Jan 9 12:38:08 kreacher dhcpd: DHCPACK on 10.1.10.145 to 00:19:1d:dd: 66:d3 via em0 Jan 9 12:43:31 kreacher dhcpd: DHCPREQUEST for 10.1.10.146 from 00:80:77:88:6f:f1 via em0 Jan 9 12:43:31 kreacher dhcpd: DHCPACK on 10.1.10.146 to 00:80:77:88:6f:f1 via em0