dhclient: lease renewal woes

[Steve Clark]

On 09/09/2012 12:11 AM, Mr Dash Four wrote:
>> It's a useful test to see if it's client related or a provider issue
>> that affects all clients.
> I did what I usually do when I get stuck in a situation like this one - examine the source and modify it to suit my own needs. Problem solved - no more mindless attempts by dhclient to connect to the dhcp server when half of the lease is still valid, just instant renewal when needed!
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Mr. Dash Four,

could you be so kind as to share your patches. I have the same problem with my cable modem and provider and
get a filled up log file as follows until I kill dhclient and restart it. Running
dhclient-4.1.1-18.P1.fc12.x86_64.

Sep  9 03:42:14 joker dhclient[1344]: DHCPREQUEST on eth0 to 10.99.0.1 port 67
Sep  9 03:42:28 joker dhclient[1344]: DHCPREQUEST on eth0 to 10.99.0.1 port 67
Sep  9 03:42:39 joker dhclient[1344]: DHCPREQUEST on eth0 to 10.99.0.1 port 67
Sep  9 03:42:52 joker dhclient[1344]: DHCPREQUEST on eth0 to 10.99.0.1 port 67
Sep  9 03:42:59 joker dhclient[1344]: DHCPREQUEST on eth0 to 10.99.0.1 port 67
Sep  9 03:43:16 joker dhclient[1344]: DHCPREQUEST on eth0 to 10.99.0.1 port 67
Sep  9 03:43:26 joker dhclient[1344]: DHCPREQUEST on eth0 to 10.99.0.1 port 67
Sep  9 03:43:41 joker dhclient[1344]: DHCPREQUEST on eth0 to 10.99.0.1 port 67
Sep  9 03:44:02 joker dhclient[1344]: DHCPREQUEST on eth0 to 10.99.0.1 port 67
Sep  9 03:44:11 joker dhclient[1344]: DHCPREQUEST on eth0 to 10.99.0.1 port 67
Sep  9 03:44:20 joker dhclient[1344]: DHCPREQUEST on eth0 to 10.99.0.1 port 67
Sep  9 03:44:41 joker dhclient[1344]: DHCPREQUEST on eth0 to 10.99.0.1 port 67
Sep  9 03:45:02 joker dhclient[1344]: DHCPREQUEST on eth0 to 10.99.0.1 port 67


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