On Wed, Apr 26, 2006 at 11:00:41PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Wednesday 26 April 2006 22:24, Charles Curley wrote: > >On Wed, Apr 26, 2006 at 09:49:26PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > Here's an interesting tidbit, I just had KwifiManager do a scan, and it > found another signal! But I'm not detecting any stray accesses, and > this is not exactly a technical utopia in this neighborhhod. Well, this is not exactly technotopia either, but Kismet detects 3-5 networks in my house. More if I walk downtown. > > Here also is another interesting tidbit, once the dhclient has been > started, it doesn't go away, and has to be killed by finding it process > number and killing it. After going back to fixed addresses and finally > getting things hooked up again, the log on the firewall was still being > bombarded with: > Apr 26 22:30:48 gene dhcpd: DHCPREQUEST for 192.168.71.102 from > 00:14:a5:75:32:c9 via eth1 > Apr 26 22:30:48 gene dhcpd: DHCPACK on 192.168.71.102 to > 00:14:a5:75:32:c9 via eth1 > Apr 26 22:31:00 gene dhcpd: DHCPREQUEST for 192.168.71.102 from > 00:14:a5:75:32:c9 via eth1 > Apr 26 22:31:00 gene dhcpd: DHCPACK on 192.168.71.102 to > 00:14:a5:75:32:c9 via eth1 > > at semi-random intervals but 3-5 times a minute. > > Should that not have been killed by a service network stop? It *should* have been, if I read the code in ifdown-eth correctly. But it looks like the dhcp client had other problems and may not have noticed the shut down signal. -- Charles Curley /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign Looking for fine software \ / Respect for open standards and/or writing? X No HTML/RTF in email http://www.charlescurley.com / \ No M$ Word docs in email Key fingerprint = CE5C 6645 A45A 64E4 94C0 809C FFF6 4C48 4ECD DFDB
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