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Date:      Sun, 22 Jan 2006 14:18:28 -0800
From:      Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net>
To:        "Kelly D. Grills" <kdgrills@the-grills.com>, Forrest Aldrich <forrie@forrie.com>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: dhclient wedged
Message-ID:  <20060122221828.GA7703@odin.ac.hmc.edu>
In-Reply-To: <20060122155131.GA823@the-grills.com>
References:  <43D339CC.3020204@forrie.com> <20060122155131.GA823@the-grills.com>

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On Sun, Jan 22, 2006 at 09:51:43AM -0600, Kelly D. Grills wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 22, 2006 at 02:52:44AM -0500, Forrest Aldrich wrote:
> >=20
> > I reported this problem a few OS versions back... pre-6.  I'm on=20
> > FreeBSD-6-STABLE, and I've found the dhclient once again "wedged" in a=
=20
> > mode that was eating a lot of CPU. =20
> >=20
> > The solution is to kill it, and restart.
> >=20
> > I'm on Comcast's network, so I don't really know if their DHCP server i=
s=20
> > doing something that FreeBSD's stock dhclient doesn't like; however, I=
=20
> > wonder if someone else has noticed this problem, etc.
> >=20
> Yes, I've also had the same problem (6.0-RELEASE), on Comcast also.
> I installed isc-dhcp3-client-3.0.3_1 from ports and haven't had a=20
> problem since. (crossing fingers ;=3D)

This definitly sounds like something particular to your dhcp servers.
It would be nice if we could fix it, but without some debugging help
that's going to be pretty much impossible.  If you can recompile
dhclient with debugging symbols and when it goes into a spin, use the
debugger to figure out where it's spinning, that would be useful.
See this post for details:

http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2005-August/054224.html

-- Brooks

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