On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 06:40:15PM +0100, Peter Ankerst?l wrote: > Hi > Im running FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE on my gateway and for the last week or so it > cant renew its dhcp-lease. > > At boot-time it sends a request to broadcast: DHCPREQUEST on fxp0 to > 255.255.255.255 port 67 > And then it gets an DHCPACK from the gateway. (not 172.21.248.127) > > But then the machine tries to renew the lease I keep getting messages like > this: > Feb 23 18:29:06 cone dhclient[1623]: DHCPREQUEST on fxp0 to 172.21.248.127 > port 67 > Feb 23 18:29:06 cone dhclient[1623]: SENDING DIRECT > Feb 23 18:29:33 cone dhclient[1623]: DHCPREQUEST on fxp0 to 172.21.248.127 > port 67 > Feb 23 18:29:33 cone dhclient[1623]: SENDING DIRECT > > until the lease runs out and then the connection drops. > I guess 172.21.248.127 is the real dhcp-server. > > A 'dhclient fxp0' sends a new request to 255.255.255.255 and it immediately > fixes the connection.
You may be seeing the issue in bin/96018. If so, switching to the dhclient from 7.1 should fix it. -- Brooks
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