Jean-Sebastien Pilon wrote: > Hello all, > > I noticed that all my Debian boxes are listening on port 68/UDP if they > have the DHCP client running. > > Can someone explain to me why they would listen on that port if they > actually received their DHCP info and they are up and running. > > udp 0 0 0.0.0.0:68 0.0.0.0:* > > is there any argument I need to pass to dhclient to fix this behavior ? >
It is probably that way since dhclient expects that it may need to listen to the DHCP server if the lease is revoked or some other such thing. > Thanks > NOTICE: This email contains privileged and confidential information and is > intended only for the individual to whom it is addressed. If you are not the > named addressee, you should not disseminate, distribute or copy this e-mail. > Please notify the sender immediately by e-mail if you have received this > transmission by mistake and delete this communication from your system. > E-mail transmission cannot be guaranteed to be secured or error-free as > information could be intercepted, corrupted, lost, destroyed, arrive late or > incomplete, or contain viruses. > > AVIS: Le présent courriel contient des renseignements de nature privilégiée > et confidentielle et n’est destiné qu'à la personne à qui il est adressé. Si > vous n’êtes pas le destinataire prévu, vous êtes par les présentes avisés que > toute diffusion, distribution ou reproduction de cette communication est > strictement interdite. Si vous avez reçu ce courriel par erreur, veuillez en > aviser immédiatement l’expéditeur et le supprimer de votre système. Notez que > la transmission de courriel ne peut en aucun cas être considéré comme > inviolable ou exempt d’erreur puisque les informations qu’il contient > pourraient être interceptés, corrompues, perdues, détruites, arrivées en > retard ou incomplètes ou contenir un virus. > Please get rid of the above ridiculous notices or please post from a different email address. About 66-75% of your message text is that disclaimer, which by the way holds very little or no legal weight, espcially considering you posted to a public mailing list with thousands of recipients. -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://familiasanchez.net/~roberto
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