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Re: Marvell 88E80856 switching from static to dhcp configuration all on its own



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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