On Sun, 2007-04-22 at 11:27 -0700, Bob Young wrote:
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: William Kenworthy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Sunday, April 22, 2007 5:42 AM
> To: gentoo-user List
> Subject: [gentoo-user] dhcpcd is too noisy in syslog
>
> Since a recent update to dhpcd, my logs are filling up with these
> messages (every 30 seconds). The previous version wasnt so verbose, but
> I cant see where to modify the behaviour of the newer version - there
> seems like there is no quiet flag. Any suggestions?
>
> Apr 22 20:34:22 moriah dhcpcd[19738]: eth0: renewing lease of
> 203.59.216.218
> Apr 22 20:34:22 moriah dhcpcd[19738]: eth0: leased xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx for
> 60 seconds
> Apr 22 20:34:22 moriah dhcpcd[19738]: eth0: adding IP address
> xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx/24
> Apr 22 20:34:22 moriah dhcpcd[19738]: eth0: adding default route via
> xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx metric 0
>
>
>
> Maybe there is something I'm missing but the first line says that dhcpcd is
> *renewing* the lease on eth0.
that's how I read it...
> If that's in fact what is happening every
> 30-60 seconds, then there is something wrong with what dhcpcd
> received/interpreted the lease duration to be.
or perhaps your dhcp server is giving out 60s leases? I had a router do
that once. I got onto the manuf. who released a firmware update to fix
it.
> The second line seems to
> confirm this in that dhcpcd believes it leased the received address for 60
> seconds. It looks like either the dhcp server's lease duration is badly
> misconfigured, or dhcpcd is not interpreting the data it receives from the
> dhcp server correctly wrt lease duration.
I would guess that your dhcpcd is doing the right thing. Who owns the
dhcp server? Is it yours? How is it set up? Is it a PC or off the
shelf box? I would be looking there for the answer.
HTH,
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