Date: Sat, 1 Jun 2002 12:13:52 -0400 From: "C J Michaels" <cjm2@earthling.net> To: "Sean McNeil" <sean@mcneil.com> Cc: "tony" <tony@tntpro.com>, <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>, <jj@nttmcl.com> Subject: RE: new dhcp client causing problems Message-ID: <CDEJIONOMGKHCNHBALKPAENACAAA.cjm2@earthling.net> In-Reply-To: <1022883675.88347.8.camel@blue.mcneil.com>
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No, it would say New IP Address if it were giving you a new IP address. As JJ mentioned in another e-mail. The network address is a function of and'ing your IP and Subnet Mask. Even if your actual IP address changed every 5 minutes, I wouldn't expect your Network Address to change very often, unless you were moved to a different subnet. I looked at my /var/log/messages and it is logging the 'new network number' message every 3-5hrs. (Mind you I'm not having any dropout problems) If you look through your /var/db/dhclient.leases, the 'New Network Number' messages should correspond with the 'renew' timestamps. I believe the only real 'issue' here is that dhclient should be silently renewing the lease (since nothing changes), but is (for some reason) displaying these messages. I was looking through /sbin/dhclient-script but it's going to take some time for _me_ to figured it out. Maybe someone else on the list with a bit more experience can help. (As for why Tony's are renewing every 5 minutes, even tho his lease renewal times are hrs apart, I haven't figured out yet. Tony, is your /etc/resolv.conf writable by the dhclient process?) --Chris > -----Original Message----- > From: Sean McNeil [mailto:sean@mcneil.com] > Sent: Friday, May 31, 2002 6:21 PM > To: C J Michaels > Subject: Re: new dhcp client causing problems > > > I'm sorry, maybe I'm misreading. It actually says New Network Number. > Isn't this what the dhcp is saying is an IP for me? These messages are > actually bogus in that they are always the same and never change. So > They aren't really "New" :) > > I had assumed that some of my dropouts are with respect to these > messages. They have some correlation, but it isn't verified. > > Sean > > On Fri, 2002-05-31 at 13:18, C J Michaels wrote: > > Sean McNeil said: > > > Hi, > > > > > > I've noticed that I occasionally lose connections through my > computer to > > > the internet. This has been happening because the dhcp > client is trying > > > to change my ip to something bogus and resetting the ethernet: > > > > Can you give an example of the 'bogus' ip address it's trying to set? > > What you have listed below (without any additional information) > appears to > > be valid. (Note: no ip address is actually listed.) > > > > > > > > May 30 23:44:17 blue dhclient: New Network Number: 66.75.176.0 > > > May 30 23:44:17 blue dhclient: New Broadcast Address: 255.255.255.255 > > > > Yes, I did note the broadcast address, my dhclient is pulling the same > > broadcast addr (RoadRunner) and I have no problems. I believe this may > > actually be an issue w/ a mis-configured dhcpd not dhclient. > > > > > May 31 02:38:07 blue su: sean to root on /dev/ttyp0 > > > > > > The previous dhcp client in 4.5 did not do this. It is only happening > > > with the 4.6-RC. > > > > > > Cheers, > > > Sean > > > > -- > > Chris > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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