Re: dhclient losing it's ip after time...
On Wed, Feb 27, 2002 at 01:16:58AM -0500, D. Clarke wrote:
Hi,
> Hi,
>
> I have a problem with dhclient losing it's ip after a while.
>
> I have ipmasq setup and i think it's the culpret but I'm not sure of what
> rule (and where) to add to allow dhcp to work properly on the external
> (cable) interface.
I am not quite sure about your issues and your network topology.
But I suspect you have problem with ipchain rules.
Are you using 2.2 kernel on gateway machine?
If so, you need to change "time parameters" in
/etc/ipmasq/rules/??... (I foregot it but one of the last five rules.)
ipchain rules has expire time thing. read man page for it.
> The only way I can get dhclient to fix itself is to stop ipmasq, ifdownup
> eth0, then start ipmasq again. As you can assume this gets quite annoying
> even though it's only once a week or so.
>
> Does anybody have any ideas?
>
> Thanks,
> ~ Darryl
> ~ http://pileofcrap.org/
>
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