On Fri, Jul 23, 2004 at 10:55:28PM +0930, David Purton wrote: > This is finally driven me nuts enough to try and fix it. > > I use dhcp to get an ip address from my dlink dsl 300+ modem. > > The problem is, that it wants to renew it every 5 seconds and syslog > *fills* up with this sort of log message: If your dsl modem is your dhcp server (it sounds like it so far), then you need to re-configure the dhcp server settings on the the modem. Increase the lease time to something sensible, e.g. 6 hours or a day? > Jul 23 22:41:29 vetinari dhclient-2.2.x: DHCPREQUEST on eth1 to 203.87.20.175 port 67 > Jul 23 22:41:29 vetinari dhclient-2.2.x: DHCPACK from 203.87.20.175 > Jul 23 22:41:29 vetinari dhclient-2.2.x: bound to 203.87.20.174 -- renewal in 5 seconds. Those are mighty weird IP addresses for a local network !? Are you sure that we're not talking about your *external* ip address? Also, as far as I can see on the technical specs of the dlink dsl 300+, it supports bridging dhcp... Do you use that? (It doesn't appear that you need to, but...) > I've tried stuffing around with dhclient.conf to try and specify the > lease time, but I can't get it working. That would not help. If the DHCP server only gives you a lease time for X seconds, holding on to the IP address for longer is dangerous - by then the DHCP server could have given that IP address to somebody else! > I gather I can probably get it to log somewhere else, but I'd much > rather have it log *much* less frequently. I have a static ip address, > so it doesn't need to renew frequently at all. I take it that you have a static *external* ip address? HTH -- Karl E. Jørgensen karl@jorgensen.com http://karl.jorgensen.com ==== Today's fortune: I'm sorry if the following sounds combative and excessively personal, but that's my general style. -- Ian Jackson
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