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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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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=20
> cant renew its dhcp-lease.
>=20
> At boot-time it sends a request to broadcast: DHCPREQUEST on fxp0 to=20
> 255.255.255.255 port 67
> And then it gets an DHCPACK from the gateway.  (not 172.21.248.127)
>=20
> But then the machine tries to renew the lease I keep getting messages lik=
e=20
> this:
> Feb 23 18:29:06 cone dhclient[1623]: DHCPREQUEST on fxp0 to 172.21.248.12=
7=20
> port 67
> Feb 23 18:29:06 cone dhclient[1623]: SENDING DIRECT
> Feb 23 18:29:33 cone dhclient[1623]: DHCPREQUEST on fxp0 to 172.21.248.12=
7=20
> port 67
> Feb 23 18:29:33 cone dhclient[1623]: SENDING DIRECT
>=20
> until the lease runs out and then the connection drops.
> I guess 172.21.248.127 is the real dhcp-server.
>=20
> A 'dhclient fxp0' sends a new request to 255.255.255.255 and it immediate=
ly=20
> fixes the connection.

You may be seeing the issue in bin/96018.  If so, switching to the dhclient
=66rom 7.1 should fix it.

-- Brooks

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