new machine - problems with gaim

[Mark Knecht]

On Wed, 05 Jan 2005 10:13:31 -0800, Rick Stevens
<rstevens at vitalstream.com> wrote:

> > Jan  4 18:30:04 Christmas dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on sit0 to
> > 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 8
> > Jan  4 18:30:04 Christmas dhclient: send_packet: Network is down
> > Jan  4 18:30:12 Christmas dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to
> > 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 4
> > Jan  4 18:30:12 Christmas dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on sit0 to
> > 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 18
> > Jan  4 18:30:12 Christmas dhclient: send_packet: Network is down
> >
> >    This sort of stuff is repeating a lot.
> 
> It sure looks like the DHCP server is cycling a lot.  Are you using
> your ISP's DHCP or one on your local access point/switch/router?

Hi,
   OK, so I just booted the machine up and I'm writing this email from
it so networking is working. When I first boot up wireless does not
come up automatically. I was in a rush to get the machine wrapped up
before Christmas so I made a script in root's account that starts
wireless for me. Unfortunately this requires that I log in as root and
run it by hand right now. I'd like to get that cleaned up in the next
week or two, but it's only a minor annoyance. Here's the script:

[root at Christmas root]# ./scripts/wireless
Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client V3.0.1rc14
Copyright 2004 Internet Systems Consortium.
All rights reserved.
For info, please visit http://www.isc.org/products/DHCP
 
sit0: unknown hardware address type 776
/sbin/dhclient-script: configuration for sit0 not found.
sit0: unknown hardware address type 776
Listening on LPF/wlan0/00:0d:88:c8:b9:a0
Sending on   LPF/wlan0/00:0d:88:c8:b9:a0
Listening on LPF/eth0/00:11:5b:4d:41:bb
Sending on   LPF/eth0/00:11:5b:4d:41:bb
Listening on LPF/sit0/
Sending on   LPF/sit0/
Listening on LPF/lo/
Sending on   LPF/lo/
Sending on   Socket/fallback
receive_packet failed on sit0: Network is down
DHCPREQUEST on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67
DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 8
DHCPDISCOVER on sit0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 3
send_packet: Network is down
DHCPDISCOVER on lo to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 4
ip length 327 disagrees with bytes received 534.
accepting packet with data after udp payload.
DHCPACK from 192.168.10.3
bound to 192.168.10.101 -- renewal in 40874 seconds.
[root at Christmas root]#