On Tue, Nov 05, 2013 at 08:38:49AM +0100, Marc Peters wrote: > Hi misc, > > i upgraded my Router at home from 5.3-STABLE to 5.4-RELEASE on Friday. > After some hours, dhclient has problems to receive the DHCPOFFER > anymore. Surfing the logs shows a lot of DHCPREQUEST without an IP. > Sometimes the dhclient gets the DHCPOFFER, but more often not. When i > restart dhclient, it receives it immediatly and sits there happily for > some hours. Then i have to restart it again. > [[ snip ]]
> I didn't notice this behaviour on 5.3. Where there any changes to > dhclient or should i talk to my ISP? > > Cheers, > Marc There were many changes to dhclient, but this problem was obviously not intended. What would help is 1) Your dhclient.conf 2) Any command line options you start dhclient with 3) A tcdump of the conversation. Something like tcpdump -i <blah> -s 2000 -vv -X if you want to capture the text output, or tcpdump -i <blah> -s 2000 -w <file to send me> if you want to just capture the packets. .... Ken
