dhclient filling up my logfiles

[Hasse]

On Thursday 19 June 2003 17.47, Hasse wrote:
> Hi everybody.
> Running FreeBSD 4.8-Stable.
> I'm connected to the internet by ADSL and dynamic IP.
> Dhcp-client keeps filling up my /var/log/messages.
> Makes a log-entry every 10th minute.
>
> <snip>
> Jun 19 17:35:56 odin dhclient: New Network Number: 217.209.211.0
> Jun 19 17:35:56 odin dhclient: New Broadcast Address: 217.209.211.255
> Jun 19 17:44:48 odin dhclient: New Network Number: 217.209.211.0
> Jun 19 17:44:48 odin dhclient: New Broadcast Address: 217.209.211.255
> </snip>
>
> I'm running it with a practically empty dhclient.conf file.
> Only added one line to preserve my resolv.conf file.
> prepend domain-name-servers 127.0.0.1;
>
> According to the man-page dhclient(8), it's possible to
> add a "-q" switch to only log errors.
>
> <snip>
>  The client normally prints a startup message and displays the  protocol
>        sequence  to  the  standard  error  descriptor until it has acquired
> an address, and then only logs messages using  the  syslog  (3)  facility.
> The  -q flag prevents any messages other than errors from being printed to
> the standard error descriptor.
> </snip>
>
> I've tried to put it in rc.conf like this :
> ifconfig_xl0="DHCP"
> dhcp_program="/sbin/dhclient"
> dhcp_flags="-q"
>
> But it still logs every connection.

-- 
Regards
   Hasse
      Webmaster @ Swedehost.com
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> Check the lease file you're receiving, if it has a rediculously short
> lease time complain to your provider.
>
> Or it may well be the case that their dhcpd server is way too chatty.
> This often seems to be the case (possibly to make it work with windows,
> I dunno). I just block that traffic from my cable ISP on my firewall
> and keep state on outgoing connections, so that if the lease is going
> to expire dhclient will ask the server and get its reply but only then,
> not without the client asking. It also makes me feel a bit more secure.
>
> (/var/log/messages):
> Jun  2 23:26:31 gateway dhclient: New Network Number: 217.121.0.0
> Jun  2 23:26:31 gateway dhclient: New Broadcast Address: 217.121.1.255
> Jun  6 11:31:18 gateway dhclient: New Network Number: 217.121.0.0
> Jun  6 11:31:18 gateway dhclient: New Broadcast Address: 217.121.1.255
> Jun  9 23:58:28 gateway dhclient: New Network Number: 217.121.0.0
> Jun  9 23:58:28 gateway dhclient: New Broadcast Address: 217.121.1.255
> Jun 13 14:02:53 gateway dhclient: New Network Number: 217.121.0.0
> Jun 13 14:02:53 gateway dhclient: New Broadcast Address: 217.121.1.255
> Jun 17 02:03:22 gateway dhclient: New Network Number: 217.121.0.0
> Jun 17 02:03:22 gateway dhclient: New Broadcast Address: 217.121.1.255
>
> HTH,
>
> --Dan
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This excessive logging behavior started for about 4 days ago.
At least, thats when I got aware of it.
Everything is working just fine, except for this.
My IP-address hardly ever change. I've had the same one for nearly a year now. 
There got to be a way to tell it to only log errors, not every connection, 
but I don't know how.
I was looking for a way in the syslog.conf, but I have very little 
understanding for that tool. ( not a clue ).
Any more hints or clues would be preciated.

This is a snip from my lease file :
lease {
  interface "xl0";
  fixed-address 217.209.211.129;
  option subnet-mask 255.255.255.0;
  option time-offset 3600;
  option routers 217.209.211.1;
  option dhcp-lease-time 1200;
  option dhcp-message-type 5;
  option domain-name-servers 127.0.0.1,10.0.0.1,10.0.0.2;
  option dhcp-server-identifier 10.0.113.1;
  option broadcast-address 217.209.211.255;
  renew 5 2003/6/20 12:18:03;
  rebind 5 2003/6/20 12:26:08;
  expire 5 2003/6/20 12:28:38;
}

-- 
Regards
   Hasse