On Sun, 2005-09-25 at 17:27, Pimin wrote:
> My DHCP connection with Comcast started behaving strangely
> when they changed their DHCP server to address 10.145.0.1.
> My NetBSd (1.5A) firewall started running out of buffers
> NMBCLUSTERS exhausted (or some shuch message).  Now when
> I run "dhclient tlp1" (which used to work just fine) I
> get:
> 

It's hard to imagine that no one replied to this.

This error "address already in use" means dhclient(8) is trying to bind
to the "bootpc" UDP port on ...whatever interface and that there's
already an instance running.

Just "pkill -9 dhclient" and try again.  Fix up dhclient_intefaces in
rc.conf and "/etc/rc.d/dhclient restart"

~BAS

>   Can't bind to dhcp address:
>   Address already in use.
> 
> I run tcpdump on that interface.  I see lots of arp requests
> for/from other machines on the network but, I never see any
> activity generated by the firewall.  It's not going ot the
> network to determine the "already in use" address.   I've
> move the lease file aside,  Removed it completely. Put it
> back.  Tried this witht he interface up and down, as the 
> default route and not as the default.  
> 
> I'm hoping somebody will be able to point me at what information
> I should be looking at to help me figure out what address is
> "already in use"??
> 
> TIA,
> Paul