From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Dec 19 17:38: 5 2000 From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Dec 19 17:38:02 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from xellos.bignet.net (xellos.bignet.net [64.79.64.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 71D7037B400 for ; Tue, 19 Dec 2000 17:38:02 -0800 (PST) Received: from t4e5g6 ([64.31.24.173]) by xellos.bignet.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id UAA04271 for ; Tue, 19 Dec 2000 20:38:01 -0500 Message-ID: <006401c06a3f$2a6945c0$ad181f40@bignet.net> From: "Jason" To: Subject: DHCP Client Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2000 20:41:35 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I have been having a huge problem with DHCP IP addresses provided by my ISP on a DSL line. I am beginning to think it might be something on my side since none of my Win9x boxes ever have this trouble but both of my BSD boxes do this ever couple weeks. My ISP is worthless as I have had a ticket open with them in "Emergency Status" for several days now and it is pending review from Tier 2 (who never answers the phone when I call) Besides my dealings with my poor ISP whoich will remain nameless (covad) for now I am thinking the only common factor I can find s OS so I thought I have better ask here. My ISP formed me to switch to DHCP from a static IP and ever since I get ip conflicts from time to time. BSD reports the ip is already in use and I lose all intenret connectivity. upon runing hdclient I get the following message: ipconfig: ioctl (SIOCAIFADDR): File exists dhclient: Can't bind to dhcp address: Address already in use dhclient: exiting My oonly indication the problem exists is my apache server rufuses all connections because it cant contact the DNS server for lookups (security feature I must impliment for all who login) Obviously the ip is accepting connections if users can reach my web server at all...I can even telnet to the box until I run dhclient...then all ip access is lost until my dhcp lease expires (every 24 hours) or sometimes longer. The current outage is over 5 days old. Also would be nice if I caould at least find a command that lists the ip and mac address of a particualr interface. All attempts to search handbook and mailing list come up completely empty which I find real odd. Even when I search on "ip" I get nothing in the mailing lists and lots of unrealted items from the handbook. So I can only assume this command is either nonexistant or so blindingly obvious no one ever asks this question. Thanks I have many more problems to follow...but one at a time...I am sick and tired of dealing with all these problems as the longer they exist the more service affecting they seem to become. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message