Re: dhcpcd refreshing lease very often.

[Roy Marples <roy%marples.name@localhost>]

Hi Mike

On 07/08/2020 17:03, Mike Pumford wrote:
> Running 9.0-STABLE buit July 26th.
>
> Machine is refreshing its least approximately once a minute. Despite the DHCP 
> server being configured with a lease time as follows:
> max-lease-time 43200;
> default-lease-time 43200;
>
> Server is NetBSD 8.2-STABLE isc dhcpd and this is the only host of many on the 
> network refreshing that often.
>
> Only non default option on the client is
> slaac hwaddr as I don't actually want the machine to have a privacy address as 
> it just makes life hard from an RDNS perspective.
>
> Anything I need to look at to help with debugging this?

You could start by adding the debug directive to dhcpcd.conf and restarting dhcpcd.
Then examine syslog and see why it's refreshing so quickly - all the reasons 
should be logged.

Roy