DHCP

[Andrew L. Gould]

Do you, by chance, have DHCP and dhclient on the same machine?

On Tuesday 27 January 2004 02:02 pm, Brian H wrote:
> This is the error that I am getting.
> "Can't bind to dhcp address: Address already in use"
> My /etc/dhcp.conf file is empty.
>
> How can I ask the dhcp server for another address?
> It doesn't apprear the the ip address in dhclient.leases
> is in use. I am not sure what the problem is.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Brian
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Lance E. Lott [mailto:lancelot at at-vantage.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, January 27, 2004 1:52 PM
> To: Brian H
> Cc: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> Subject: RE: DHCP
>
> At 01:44 PM 1/27/2004, you wrote:
> >Currently when I run dhclient on the console I nothing gets written to
> >stdout, but the following message gets writen to /var/log/messages. Any
> >thoughts ?
> >
> >
> >If you did not get this software from ftp.isc.org, please
> >get the latest from ftp.isc.org and install that before requesting help.
> >
> >If you did get this software from ftp.isc.org and have not
> >yet read the README, please read it before requesting help.
> >If you intend to request help from the dhcp-server at isc.org mailing list,
> >please read the section on the README about submitting bug reports and
> >requests for help.
> >
> >Please do not under any circumstances send requests for
> >help directly to the authors of this software - please
> >send them to the appropriate mailing list as described in
> >the README file.
> >
> >exiting.
> >
>
> It usually means you have a configuration problem with the dhcp.conf file
> in /etc
>
> Look through the log again, and it should tell you (reasonably) what the
> problem is.
>
> or
>
> Post your dhcp.conf file...
>
> Lance