DHCPREQUEST entries in system Log

[Paul Howarth]

On Sat, 2005-03-19 at 06:38 -0500, David Niemi wrote:
> Over the last week I have 6 entries in my system logs for the
> DHCPREQUEST on my FC3 PC.  It is hooked into my home network and has
> the .190 IP address.  The FC3 machine is not running DHCP or any other
> type of server applications that I know of, but is running Firestarter
> trusting other PCs on my network but not .1.
> 
> The .1 address is my fireswall PC running Smoothwall which also handles
> NAT an DHCP for my home network. On the Smoothwall PCs logs I see no
> attempted attempted intrusions through the SNORT log.
> 
> Tried Google and searching the fedora-list archives but couldn't come up
> with a satisfactory answer as to why I have these entries.
> 
> I have 3 of these entries below which occurred during reboots so I
> understand these are just the PC obtaining a IP from the DHCP server
> on .1.
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------
> Mar 14 12:33:00 Jenny dhclient: DHCPREQUEST on eth0 to 255.255.255.255
> port 67 
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> I have 3 entries, one each on different days like this:
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------
> Mar 18 17:52:32 Jenny dhclient: DHCPREQUEST on eth0 to 192.XXX.XXX.1
> port 67
> Mar 18 17:52:33 Jenny dhclient: DHCPACK from 192.XXX.XXX.1
> Mar 18 17:52:33 Jenny dhclient: bound to 192.XXX.XXX.190 -- renewal in
> 81026 seconds.
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> Are these entries just my FC3 machine renewing it's IP address with the
> DHCP server, or could these be symptomatic of other problems on my home
> network?

dhclient is the DHCP client on your machine; it's just renewing its IP
address.

Paul.
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Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org>