On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 02:30:42PM -0700, Freddy Freeloader wrote: > Andrew Sackville-West wrote: >> On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 01:36:43PM -0700, Freddy Freeloader wrote: >>> Andrew Sackville-West wrote: >>>> On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 11:14:25AM -0700, Freddy Freeloader wrote: [...] >>>>> I have two NICs. The onboard Marvell and a 3Com 3c905b. The >>>>> 3Com handles dhcp and dns requests. Both are configured for >>>>> statically configured IP addresses in /etc/network/interfaces. >>>>> However, the Marvell will, after some unknown amount of >>>>> time--less than 12 hours--drop its static IP address and >>>>> request a dhcp address from the 3Com adapter. [...] >>>> probably a killall dhclient will sort it out. [...] >>> [I] will give that a try and see if the behavior changes. [...] >> >> perhaps some other package is starting dhclient? Basically, if you >> have both interfaces using static ip, dhclient shouldn't even be >> started. care to post /etc/network/interfaces? [...] > For some reason dhclient WAS running, but I don't know why. if it reappears, try a `ps aux`, maybe there will be a clue there as to where it's coming from. And after a reboot, run watch grep dhclient /var/log/syslog or some equivalent and watch for it to show up. > You wouldn't happen to have any guesses on the second problem I listed > would you? :) nope, sorry. A
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