Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2001 22:53:49 -0500 From: "Donald J . Maddox" <dmaddox@sc.rr.com> To: trini0 <trini0@optonline.net> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: restarting or renewing dhclient Message-ID: <20010104225349.A1207@cae88-102-101.sc.rr.com> In-Reply-To: <3A54E446.A73FB7D@optonline.net>; from trini0@optonline.net on Thu, Jan 04, 2001 at 03:59:50PM -0500 References: <3A54C701.A836F5DA@optonline.net> <20010104142350.A9296@cae88-102-101.sc.rr.com> <3A54E446.A73FB7D@optonline.net>
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Hmmm... That's not how DHCP is *supposed* to work. My IP stays the same for long periods too, but when it changes, it just does :) with no ill-effects. Maybe you have an issue with your ISP here... On Thu, Jan 04, 2001 at 03:59:50PM -0500, trini0 wrote: > Ever since I set the network up 4-5 months ago, Ive had 1 ip address until > this morning. Even through all the reboots that I put this box through, the > ip address stayed the same. This morning on the console, there was > "dhclient: send packet: No route to host" and it repeated itself about 9-10 > times at different times. I rebooted and I now have a new ip address and > gateway ip. No problem, thats how dhcp works, I just didn't know how or if > dhclient refreshes itself. The above error happened about 4:30am, and I > rebooted about 11am. I figured out that I could kill -9 dhclient.pid and > restart it by dhclient ed0. I just got to figure out how to do it in script > form so that I could have cron run it maybe once a day. It seems to me that > its a crude way to do it, but it seems to work. If anyone want to chime in > feel free to correct me. > Thanks > > "Donald J . Maddox" wrote: > > > Dhclient runs as a daemon and automatically renews the lease when it > > expires, etc. What exactly went wrong with your network? > > > > On Thu, Jan 04, 2001 at 01:54:57PM -0500, trini0 wrote: > > > Hey all. I have had my box serving my lan on a cable modem with the > > > same external ip address, until this morning. I had to restart the box > > > in order to get the network going again. I tried looking in man 5 > > > dhclient.conf for clues to see if I could say restart/refresh dhclient > > > once a day. I came across a renew statement, but it seems limited in > > > its time field format, unlike cron's. Does anyone know of a way to > > > flush, restart/renew dhclient. I know about isc mailing list, I figured > > > I'd ask here before subscribing with them, just for one ?. > > > Thanks > > > > -- > > _____________________________ > | trini0 | > | | > / ) | Systems Administrator | > / / | Network Engineer | > ( ( | email ==> | > (((\ \> |/ ) trini0@optonline.net | > (\\\\ \_/ /_________________________| > \ / > \ _/ > / / > / / > > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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