Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2002 16:59:23 +0100 From: Ceri Davies <setantae@submonkey.net> To: Cameron Haegle <Cameron_Haegle@digi.com> Cc: "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Increasing dhclient's maximum hop value Message-ID: <20020913155923.GA69386@submonkey.net> In-Reply-To: <A4167A787920DD4EB65D43948EF260341FB0E2@dotforward.digi.com> References: <A4167A787920DD4EB65D43948EF260341FB0E2@dotforward.digi.com>
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On Fri, Sep 13, 2002 at 09:58:05AM -0500, Cameron Haegle wrote: > While all suggestions were considered and acted upon, none of them proved > fruitful. Finally, yesterday, my ISP responded to an e-mail I had sent them > this pst weekend. > > According to them this problem has been reported by several other customer > using Unix boxes. Per their staff, due the restructuring of the network the > DHCP server could be as far away as 20 hops. I am told that dhclient has > some hard-coded hops maximum of 16. It has been recommended that I try to > increase this value to 20 and try again. They should consider installing a dhcrelay server if it's causing their customers problems. Ceri -- you can't see when light's so strong you can't see when light is gone To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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