From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jan 25 6:50:45 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail8.nc.rr.com (fe8.southeast.rr.com [24.93.67.55]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 320B137B41B for ; Fri, 25 Jan 2002 06:50:40 -0800 (PST) Received: from i8k.babbleon.org ([66.57.85.154]) by mail8.nc.rr.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.5.1877.687.68); Fri, 25 Jan 2002 09:50:39 -0500 Received: by i8k.babbleon.org (Postfix, from userid 111) id 0C1A23F62; Fri, 25 Jan 2002 09:49:34 -0500 (EST) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-15" From: Brian T.Schellenberger To: Martin Karlsson , "Sam C. Zamarripa" Subject: Re: DHCP & Drops Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2002 09:49:33 -0500 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3] Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: <022101c1a593$5387f880$0200000a@MATRIX> <20020125141509.GA4177@foo31-249.visit.se> In-Reply-To: <20020125141509.GA4177@foo31-249.visit.se> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-Id: <20020125144934.0C1A23F62@i8k.babbleon.org> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Friday 25 January 2002 09:15 am, Martin Karlsson wrote: > On Fri Jan 25, 2002 at 03:27:52AM -0800, Sam C. Zamarripa wrote: > [...snip...] > > > Every once in awhile there will be a connection > > drop. Everything works fine then all of the sudden everything stops. > > I've got the same problem. > > > I have sat and waited up to 5 minutes during these burps and nothing ever > > seem to come back on its own. I kill -9 dhclient and start it again and > > I'm back on the net. The last 2 times it burped on me tonight, I didn't > > wait a second..as soon as it dropped I killed dhclient and restarted and > > was immediately back on the net. Are you back on with the same address as before? If so, I doubt it's dhcp _per_se_ that is causing the trouble; however killing and restarting dhcp does have the effect of dropping the default route and then re-establishing it. I would suspect that the default route is somehow seizing up. Next time it happens do a "netstat -nr" and trying "pinging" your default gateway. PS: I'm assuming from the what you describe here that you are connected directly to the cable madem without a firewall in between, right? (If so I hope you were careful with your machine's setup to not have any ports open . . .) > > man(5) dhclient.conf contains some interesting stuff; I've tried setting > 'retry 30' (as in 30 secs), but that doesn't seem to do the trick. As > you point out killing dhclient and starting it again works... until it > "dies" again. > > > This is why I am maybe wondering if its something with my DHCP setup. > > Hopefully, the grand-master-guru of dhclient have heard our cries for > help. It's a pain in the arse, it is. > > Sorry I couldn't be of help. > > Cheers -- Brian T. Schellenberger . . . . . . . bts@wnt.sas.com (work) Brian, the man from Babble-On . . . . bts@babbleon.org (personal) http://www.babbleon.org -------> Free Dmitry Sklyarov! (let him go home) <----------- http://www.eff.org http://www.programming-freedom.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message