Hi Tim, thank you for your reply. The "Last write time" from the filesystem superblock does only refer to writes to the superblock not the entire filesystem:
root@bokocube:~# dumpe2fs -h /dev/mmcblk0p2|grep Last dumpe2fs 1.42.10 (18-May-2014) Last mounted on: / Last mount time: Thu Jan 1 01:00:04 1970 Last write time: Thu Jan 1 01:00:04 1970 Last checked: Sat Jun 14 20:19:23 2014 root@bokocube:~# Thus I followed the idea to use the timestamp of syslog: rd@bokocube:~$ cat /etc/init.d/clockemu #!/bin/sh ### BEGIN INIT INFO # Provides: clockemu # Required-Start: $remote_fs # Required-Stop: $remote_fs # Should-Start: $portmap # Should-Stop: $portmap # X-Start-Before: syslog # X-Stop-After: syslog # Default-Start: 2 3 4 5 # Default-Stop: 0 1 6 # X-Interactive: true # Short-Description: emulates the RTC by setting the clock to the /var/log/syslog write time as early as possible # Description: This file should be used to construct scripts to be # placed in /etc/init.d. ### END INIT INFO PATH=/sbin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin . /lib/init/vars.sh set -vx do_start() { date "+%D %T" -s "`date "+%D %T" -r /var/log/syslog`" } case "$1" in start) do_start ;; restart|reload|force-reload) echo "Error: argument '$1' not supported" >&2 exit 3 ;; stop) ;; *) echo "Usage: $0 start|stop" >&2 exit 3 ;; esac rd@bokocube:~$ This looks much better now: root@bokocube:~# grep "bound to" /var/log/syslog Jun 28 15:46:36 bokocube dhclient: bound to 192.168.178.87 -- renewal in 395611 seconds. Jun 28 15:46:38 bokocube dhclient: bound to 192.168.178.87 -- renewal in 388322 seconds. Jun 28 15:46:38 bokocube ifup[239]: bound to 192.168.178.87 -- renewal in 388322 seconds. Jun 28 16:04:08 bokocube dhclient: bound to 192.168.178.87 -- renewal in 403727 seconds. Jun 28 16:04:10 bokocube dhclient: bound to 192.168.178.87 -- renewal in 388322 seconds. Jun 28 16:04:10 bokocube ifup[247]: bound to 192.168.178.87 -- renewal in 388322 seconds. Jun 28 16:16:20 bokocube dhclient: bound to 192.168.178.87 -- renewal in 399151 seconds. Jun 28 16:16:22 bokocube dhclient: bound to 192.168.178.87 -- renewal in 368472 seconds. Jun 28 16:16:22 bokocube ifup[238]: bound to 192.168.178.87 -- renewal in 368472 seconds. root@bokocube:~# i.e. four boots in a row got consistently the *.87 address. It becomes interesting, what happens when the lease expires in 8 days time. Thanks, Rainer On Saturday 28 June 2014 14:01:27 Tim Small wrote: > I think you'll need to use wireshark to figure out what's different (if > anything) about the two sets of dhcp requests. > > You might want to run wireshark on another box with two NICs bridged > (cubox into one, router into the other) to ensure you see unicast as > well as broadcast traffic. > > Alternatively, you could start tcpdump on the cubox early in the boot > process to create a packet trace file, and load that into wireshark > later for analysis. > > Possibly the changing local time is making the local cubox dhclient not > request a lease renewal, but to request? You could hack around this by > setting the time prior to dhcp, using the timestamp of something on > local storage - like a log file (or the "Last write time" from the > filesystem superblock). The time will still be wrong, but at least the > machine won't have seem like it time-travelled backwards. > > If you can't find anything changing between the two requests, then it's > probably down to the router policy. > > Tim. > > On 28/06/14 13:42, Rainer Dorsch wrote: > > Hi Ian, > > > > On Saturday 28 June 2014 10:28:33 Ian Campbell wrote: > >> On Sat, 2014-06-28 at 10:23 +0200, Rainer Dorsch wrote: > >>> The real question is why does the dhclient on the cubox-i > >>> http://cubox-i.com/ get another IP address when it asks again? > >> > >> Is it possible that it is booting with some hardcoded default MAC > >> address which gets set to the proper one during boot, before the clock > >> change forces a second DHCP request? > > > > I thought about that, but the weired thing is that sometimes it has *.87 > > after booting and changes to *.88 and sometimes the other way round. Here > > are two of these examples > > > > rd@bokocube:/var/log$ grep "bound to" syslog > > Jan 1 01:00:10 bokocube dhclient: bound to 192.168.178.87 -- renewal in > > 342127 seconds. > > Jan 1 01:00:12 bokocube dhclient: bound to 192.168.178.87 -- renewal in > > 369324 seconds. > > Jan 1 01:00:12 bokocube ifup[238]: bound to 192.168.178.87 -- renewal in > > 369324 seconds. > > Jun 28 11:37:08 bokocube dhclient: bound to 192.168.178.87 -- renewal in > > 371052 seconds. > > Jun 28 11:37:08 bokocube dhclient: bound to 192.168.178.88 -- renewal in > > 392786 seconds. > > Jan 1 01:00:09 bokocube dhclient: bound to 192.168.178.88 -- renewal in > > 379228 seconds. > > Jan 1 01:00:12 bokocube dhclient: bound to 192.168.178.88 -- renewal in > > 369324 seconds. > > Jan 1 01:00:12 bokocube ifup[244]: bound to 192.168.178.88 -- renewal in > > 369324 seconds. > > Jan 1 01:00:09 bokocube dhclient: bound to 192.168.178.88 -- renewal in > > 361711 seconds. > > Jan 1 01:00:10 bokocube dhclient: bound to 192.168.178.88 -- renewal in > > 423282 seconds. > > Jan 1 01:00:10 bokocube ifup[238]: bound to 192.168.178.88 -- renewal in > > 423282 seconds. > > Jun 28 14:02:58 bokocube dhclient: bound to 192.168.178.88 -- renewal in > > 370838 seconds. > > Jun 28 14:02:58 bokocube dhclient: bound to 192.168.178.87 -- renewal in > > 365945 seconds. > > rd@bokocube:/var/log$ > > > > Also this is independent of setting a dhcp-client-identifier in > > dhclient.conf or not. > > > >> Perhaps the DHCP server logs can give you a clue why it decided to give > >> a new IP address instead of reusing the existing lease? > > > > Unfortunately, the server side is a router, I do not see log entries from > > dhcp requests. The only weired observation on the router is that one > > entry (either *.87 or *.88) has an empty MAC address. But not even that > > is fix, also the IP with the empty MAC address "oscillates". > > > > Here is the complete client log for reference: > > > > rd@bokocube:/var/log$ grep dhclient syslog > > Jan 1 01:00:08 bokocube NetworkManager[341]: <info> dhclient started with > > pid 427 > > Jan 1 01:00:08 bokocube dhclient: Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client > > 4.3.0 > > Jan 1 01:00:08 bokocube dhclient: Copyright 2004-2014 Internet Systems > > Consortium. > > Jan 1 01:00:08 bokocube dhclient: All rights reserved. > > Jan 1 01:00:08 bokocube dhclient: For info, please visit > > https://www.isc.org/software/dhcp/ > > Jan 1 01:00:08 bokocube dhclient: > > Jan 1 01:00:08 bokocube dhclient: Listening on LPF/eth0/d0:63:b4:00:32:5c > > Jan 1 01:00:08 bokocube dhclient: Sending on LPF/eth0/d0:63:b4:00:32:5c > > Jan 1 01:00:08 bokocube dhclient: Sending on Socket/fallback > > Jan 1 01:00:08 bokocube dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 > > port 67 interval 8 > > Jan 1 01:00:09 bokocube dhclient: DHCPREQUEST on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 > > port 67 > > Jan 1 01:00:09 bokocube dhclient: DHCPOFFER from 192.168.178.1 > > Jan 1 01:00:10 bokocube dhclient: DHCPACK from 192.168.178.1 > > Jan 1 01:00:10 bokocube dhclient: bound to 192.168.178.87 -- renewal in > > 342127 seconds. > > Jan 1 01:00:12 bokocube dhclient: DHCPREQUEST on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 > > port 67 > > Jan 1 01:00:12 bokocube dhclient: DHCPACK from 192.168.178.1 > > Jan 1 01:00:12 bokocube dhclient: bound to 192.168.178.87 -- renewal in > > 369324 seconds. > > Jun 28 11:37:07 bokocube dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 > > port 67 interval 5 > > Jun 28 11:37:07 bokocube dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 > > port 67 interval 8 > > Jun 28 11:37:08 bokocube dhclient: DHCPREQUEST on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 > > port 67 > > Jun 28 11:37:08 bokocube dhclient: DHCPOFFER from 192.168.178.1 > > Jun 28 11:37:08 bokocube dhclient: DHCPACK from 192.168.178.1 > > Jun 28 11:37:08 bokocube dhclient: bound to 192.168.178.87 -- renewal in > > 371052 seconds. > > Jun 28 11:37:08 bokocube dhclient: DHCPREQUEST on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 > > port 67 > > Jun 28 11:37:08 bokocube dhclient: DHCPOFFER from 192.168.178.1 > > Jun 28 11:37:08 bokocube dhclient: DHCPACK from 192.168.178.1 > > Jun 28 11:37:08 bokocube dhclient: bound to 192.168.178.88 -- renewal in > > 392786 seconds. > > Jan 1 01:00:08 bokocube NetworkManager[343]: <info> dhclient started with > > pid 431 > > Jan 1 01:00:08 bokocube dhclient: Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client > > 4.3.0 > > Jan 1 01:00:08 bokocube dhclient: Copyright 2004-2014 Internet Systems > > Consortium. > > Jan 1 01:00:08 bokocube dhclient: All rights reserved. > > Jan 1 01:00:08 bokocube dhclient: For info, please visit > > https://www.isc.org/software/dhcp/ > > Jan 1 01:00:08 bokocube dhclient: > > Jan 1 01:00:08 bokocube dhclient: Listening on LPF/eth0/d0:63:b4:00:32:5c > > Jan 1 01:00:08 bokocube dhclient: Sending on LPF/eth0/d0:63:b4:00:32:5c > > Jan 1 01:00:08 bokocube dhclient: Sending on Socket/fallback > > Jan 1 01:00:08 bokocube dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 > > port 67 interval 7 > > Jan 1 01:00:09 bokocube dhclient: DHCPREQUEST on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 > > port 67 > > Jan 1 01:00:09 bokocube dhclient: DHCPOFFER from 192.168.178.1 > > Jan 1 01:00:09 bokocube dhclient: DHCPACK from 192.168.178.1 > > Jan 1 01:00:09 bokocube dhclient: bound to 192.168.178.88 -- renewal in > > 379228 seconds. > > Jan 1 01:00:12 bokocube dhclient: DHCPREQUEST on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 > > port 67 > > Jan 1 01:00:12 bokocube dhclient: DHCPACK from 192.168.178.1 > > Jan 1 01:00:12 bokocube dhclient: bound to 192.168.178.88 -- renewal in > > 369324 seconds. > > Jan 1 01:00:08 bokocube NetworkManager[344]: <info> dhclient started with > > pid 432 > > Jan 1 01:00:08 bokocube dhclient: Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client > > 4.3.0 > > Jan 1 01:00:08 bokocube dhclient: Copyright 2004-2014 Internet Systems > > Consortium. > > Jan 1 01:00:08 bokocube dhclient: All rights reserved. > > Jan 1 01:00:08 bokocube dhclient: For info, please visit > > https://www.isc.org/software/dhcp/ > > Jan 1 01:00:08 bokocube dhclient: > > Jan 1 01:00:08 bokocube dhclient: Listening on LPF/eth0/d0:63:b4:00:32:5c > > Jan 1 01:00:08 bokocube dhclient: Sending on LPF/eth0/d0:63:b4:00:32:5c > > Jan 1 01:00:08 bokocube dhclient: Sending on Socket/fallback > > Jan 1 01:00:08 bokocube dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 > > port 67 interval 5 > > Jan 1 01:00:09 bokocube dhclient: DHCPREQUEST on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 > > port 67 > > Jan 1 01:00:09 bokocube dhclient: DHCPOFFER from 192.168.178.1 > > Jan 1 01:00:09 bokocube dhclient: DHCPACK from 192.168.178.1 > > Jan 1 01:00:09 bokocube dhclient: bound to 192.168.178.88 -- renewal in > > 361711 seconds. > > Jan 1 01:00:10 bokocube dhclient: DHCPREQUEST on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 > > port 67 > > Jan 1 01:00:10 bokocube dhclient: DHCPACK from 192.168.178.1 > > Jan 1 01:00:10 bokocube dhclient: bound to 192.168.178.88 -- renewal in > > 423282 seconds. > > Jun 28 14:02:57 bokocube dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 > > port 67 interval 5 > > Jun 28 14:02:57 bokocube dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 > > port 67 interval 5 > > Jun 28 14:02:58 bokocube dhclient: DHCPREQUEST on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 > > port 67 > > Jun 28 14:02:58 bokocube dhclient: DHCPOFFER from 192.168.178.1 > > Jun 28 14:02:58 bokocube dhclient: DHCPACK from 192.168.178.1 > > Jun 28 14:02:58 bokocube dhclient: bound to 192.168.178.88 -- renewal in > > 370838 seconds. > > Jun 28 14:02:58 bokocube dhclient: DHCPREQUEST on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 > > port 67 > > Jun 28 14:02:58 bokocube dhclient: DHCPOFFER from 192.168.178.1 > > Jun 28 14:02:58 bokocube dhclient: DHCPACK from 192.168.178.1 > > Jun 28 14:02:58 bokocube dhclient: bound to 192.168.178.87 -- renewal in > > 365945 seconds. > > rd@bokocube:/var/log$ > > > > Thanks, > > Rainer -- Rainer Dorsch http://bokomoko.de/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-arm-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". 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