On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 2:01 PM, Sean Alexandre <s...@alexan.org> wrote: > I have a machine that's not acquiring a DHCP lease from my ISP. I can see that > dhclient is sending DHCPDISCOVER messages. My system log has: > > Aug 25 17:36:41 athabasca dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on eth-wan to > 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 7
-------------8<-------------8<-------------8<-------------8<-------------8<-------------8<-------------8<------------- > The odd thing is if I do the exact same thing with this machine connected to > a local TP-LINK router instead of my ISP cable modem, dhcpdump sees the > DHCPDISCOVER, and the machine acquires a DHCP lease. Is your cable modem setup in bridge mode? (bridge between it's ethernet (RJ45) and the 'wan' ports with cable coming in from ISP. > Any ideas why would dhclient be sending a DHCPDISCOVER, but dhcpdump not see > it? Try tcpdump with dest port 67 HTH -- Arun Khan Sent from my non-iphone/non-android device -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/cahhm8gdx4hy2vkm3kv54cx-eoososhz3f88ste8wumqt+gj...@mail.gmail.com
