Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2014 17:10:05 -0400 From: Robert Huff <roberthuff@rcn.com> To: net@freebsd.org Cc: Robert Huff <roberthuff@rcn.com>, Alan Somers <asomers@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: questions about (system) dhclient Message-ID: <5339D9AD.4070307@rcn.com>
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>> This is the relevant portion of dhclient.conf: >> >> http://users.rcn.com/dhclient.conf > > File not found ooops - try "http://users.rcn.com/roberthuff/dhclient.conf" >> Upon execution, I get this: > >> http://users.rcn.com/roberthuff/dhcp_offer > >You're getting on offer on a completely different network than that >where the dhcp server resides. That's weird. Do you expect that to >happen? Yes. (Sometimes it's the same network, sometimes not.) > However, when I look at dhclient.leases: > > http://users.rcn.com/roberthuff/dhclient.leases.em0 > >This file is empty. Is it supposed to be? No. It should be there now. > Try running "service netif stop em0" to stop the background dhclient > process. Manually killed all dhclient processes. > Then run "dhclient -d" to force it to remain in the > foreground, and see if it prints any useful debugging info. Just the offer, ack, and bound-to/renewal lines. > It might > also be useful to run "tcpdump -i em0 host > 10.23.192.1" in another terminal. It may take a while before I can do that. Thanks for helping. Robert Huff
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