On Thursday 18 November 2004 19:05, Paul wrote: > Hi everyone, > > Suddenly this morning my pc stopped talking to the internet. In > /var/log/messages I found this: > > Nov 18 11:15:27 nwyfre dhclient: DHCPREQUEST on eth1 to xxx.yy.zzz.aa > port 67 > Nov 18 11:15:55 nwyfre last message repeated 4 times > > It comes back again and again. > > The IP address points to the DHCP server of my provider (I removed the > actual number as I am not sure if this can be made public). > > For the last 57 days my PC was up and running without any problem, and > now this happened. After restarting the network services, eth1 (which > connects to the net) came up again and communication is restored. > > I cannot really find a reason why this happened. Could it be that the > lease on the IP number somehow runs out after a certain amount of time? > > Paul
Yes DHCP leases do expire, but then the DHCP client will simply ask for a new lease, and in most cases will be granted the same IP address back again. Somehow your ISP's DHCP server seem to have got its knickers in a twist and was not responding to lease renewal requests. derek -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org
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