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. -- Paul Howarth <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
