dhclient cant renew lease.

[Brooks Davis]

On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 06:40:15PM +0100, Peter Ankerst?l wrote:
> 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.

You may be seeing the issue in bin/96018.  If so, switching to the dhclient
from 7.1 should fix it.

-- Brooks
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