[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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