Re: syslog entries

[Jerome BENOIT <jgmbenoit@mailsnare.net>]

Hello,

Frank McCormick wrote:
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> On Thu, 15 Oct 2009 08:39:43 +0800
> Jerome BENOIT <jgmbenoit@mailsnare.net> wrote:
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> > > I noticed this today - my syslog is filling up with repeated
> > > calls to my internet provider...even though I am obviously connected.
> > > Is this caused by some mis-configuration ?
> > >
> > >
> > > This is the sort of thing I mean:
> > >
> > > Oct 14 19:02:21 squeeze dhclient: DHCPREQUEST on eth0 to 192.168.1.1
> >
> > two weeks ago, I posted on the list a similar issue: `dhclient
> > DHCPREQUEST loop'.
>
>   Yeah, just found that in the archives. But I see no one had a solution then, and
> probably now.
> It works so I won't try to fix it :)

For my issue, it is periodically working :-)
My current understanding is that the different
involved times do not have the same definition for
the client and the server.
My plan is to give a try to dhcp4 (available in
experimental) as it has new options which may allow
to play with the different involved times.

hth,
Jerome

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> Frank
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Jerome BENOIT
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