dhclient cant renew lease.

[Peter Ankerstål]

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.


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Peter Ankerstål
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