[RndTbl] Shaw & dhclient
Trevor Cordes
trevor at tecnopolis.ca
Mon Nov 27 12:43:54 CST 2006
For a few weeks I've been seeing strange behaviour with dhclient/dhcp and
Shaw. Wondering if anyone else has seen this:
Once a week or so, usually on Sun or Mon, my FC5 box firewall/router will
lose its connection to Shaw. ifconfing will show eth0 up with an IP
address, but no traffic will come in or out. Normally, that's a "Shaw is
down" symptom. But if I ifdown eth0; ifup eth0, then instantly everything
is ok again. And my IP address stays the same.
It's almost like dhclient isn't keeping Shaw's DHCP server happy and
they're cutting me off until I say, "hey, I'm still here" with a ifup
kick.
Any ideas?
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