On Sun, May 14, 2006 at 06:48:16PM -0400, J.R. Oldroyd wrote: > Using 6.1-STABLE cvsup'd on 5/9, I am noticing that on insertion > of a wi0 card, dhclient is invoking its dhclient-script several > times, as follows, from instrumentation added to the script: > > Sun May 14 18:34:20 EDT 2006 dhclient reason=PREINIT > Sun May 14 18:34:20 EDT 2006 dhclient reason=REBOOT > Sun May 14 18:34:21 EDT 2006 dhclient reason=EXPIRE > > The third invocation, the EXPIRE, is wrong. This EXPIRE has the > effect of causing the just-acquired IP address to be deleted, so > the i/f appears to have no IP address. > > ... > Further instrumentation of the dhclient-script shows that the > EXPIRE does seem to be premature, in that the value of $old_expiry > does appear to be (well) beyond the current time. > > Anyone have thoughts on why this is happening?
I've seen it occasionally. I have been using a dhclient-exit-hooks script anyway (to set hostname, try to synch with an NTP server, and set firewall rules), so I modified my dhclient-exit-hooks script to just (log and) ignore EXPIRE requests. That could be wrong or anti-social, but then again, my laptop rarely goes more than 18 hours at a strech -- I track RELENG_6 & HEAD on it every day there's been a change in the (respective) sources.... :-} Peace, david -- David H. Wolfskill [EMAIL PROTECTED] When reading advertising, recall that "up to" means "no more than." See http://www.catwhisker.org/~david/publickey.gpg for my public key. _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
