Hello Steven,

it would be great if the dhclient.conf manpage would contain the
default location for itself (for the file dhclient.conf). I guess it's
/etc/dhclient.conf but it isn't mentioned anywhere.
And the unit of time in the retry statement "retry [time]" would be
great. It says the default is 5 minutes, but the example at the bottom
says "retry 60;", so I guess it's seconds.

Least but not last. It doesn't matter what I enter for retry, it is ignored.

Cheers, Zafer.



2006/11/15, Steven M. Bellovin <smb@cs.columbia.edu>:
> On Wed, 15 Nov 2006 17:32:42 +0100, "Zafer Aydogan" <zafer@aydogan.de>
> wrote:
>
> > 2006/11/15, Steven M. Bellovin <smb@cs.columbia.edu>:
>
> > > See the dhclient.conf man page -- you can change 'retry' (and some other
> > > timer-related options) to change that behavior.
> > >
> > >                 --Steven M. Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb
> > >
> > I did. It looks promising. But it didn't work.
> > I run tcpdump and kept an eye on it.
> > The man page says the default retry time is 5 minutes.
> > I waited 18 Minutes and nothing happened. The interface is up and
> > active but has still no IP.
> >
> >
> > and Hubert's quote doesn't work either.
> > "from dhclient(8): ``Old leases are kept around in case the DHCP server is
> > unavailable when dhclient is first invoked (generally during the initial
> > system boot process).  In that event, old leases from the dhclient.leases
> > file which have not yet expired are tested, and if they are determined to
> > be valid, they are used until either they expire or the DHCP server
> > becomes available.''
> >
> > I see the message "using old lease 192.168.0.203", but the interface
> > doesn't get configured.
> >
> >
> > Anything else I can do ?
> > I'm running current from 8th Nov. and my ethernet interface is fxp0.
> > (It's running very well.)
> > Is this maybe a dhclient bug ?
> > Zafer.
> >
> I'll reply in more detail later -- I have a feeling something more complex
> is going on.
>
>                 --Steven M. Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb
>