dhclient fails to obtain the IP address from some WiFi networks

Yuri yuri at rawbw.com
Sat Mar 23 17:30:38 UTC 2019


On 3/23/19 9:42 AM, Nash Kaminski wrote:
> It appears that you actually may have had an  address assigned, but then
> had it removed ~30 seconds later when the interface was brought down by
> wpa_supplicant.


I also ran dhclient by hand, and it never said that it obtained the 
lease. It would just say that it requested the lease, again and again 
after the increasing time interval, and eventually it would just say 
"Using the recorded lease ...".

So dhclient is the process that was failing, I think.



Yuri




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