Re: Many DHCPD Log Entries

[Brian Mury <brianmury alumni uvic ca>]

> > Everytime my laptop tries to renew its lease my log
> > fills up with these:
> > 
> > Sep 16 07:05:24 bonsai dhcpd: DHCPREQUEST for
> > 192.168.100.19 from 00:12:f0:a3:58:d9 (ewarner) via
> > eth1
> > Sep 16 07:05:24 bonsai dhcpd: DHCPACK on
> > 192.168.100.19 to 00:12:f0:a3:58:d9 (ewarner) via eth1

> > Do you mean if "fills up" with numerous log entries like the above, or
> > just that the lease renewal gets logged when it happens (the once, each
> > time)?  Those entries look normal enough.
> 
> Yes, it fills up with numerous log entries. It is the only computer on the network that does this.

I get something similar, but I just get the DHCPREQUEST messages, not
the DHCPACK messages. My /var/log/messages gets a lot of this:

Sep 16 22:52:10 localhost dhclient: DHCPREQUEST on eth0 to 192.168.1.1 port 67
Sep 16 22:52:57 localhost last message repeated 4 times
Sep 16 22:53:59 localhost last message repeated 5 times
Sep 16 22:55:18 localhost last message repeated 5 times
Sep 16 22:56:24 localhost last message repeated 6 times
Sep 16 22:57:28 localhost last message repeated 4 times
Sep 16 22:58:30 localhost last message repeated 4 times
Sep 16 22:59:43 localhost last message repeated 5 times
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