dhclient deletes ifaddr, then fails

[Sepherosa Ziehau]

On 7/9/08, Simon 'corecode' Schubert <corecode at fs.ei.tum.de> wrote:
> Hey,
>
>  considering this sequence:
>
>         dhclient fxp0
>
>  now we have ip address & everything is fine.  dhclient keeps running
>
>         dhclient fxp0
>
>  returns error 1.  in syslog, it complains about the address already beeing
> taken, because of the running dhlient.  However, it will set the ip address
> of fxp0 to 0.0.0.0.  Now I'm left with an unusable system.
>
>         killall dhclient
>         dhclient fxp0
>
>  now it works again.

Use a pid file in /var to lock out multi dhclients on the same interface?

Best Regards,
sephe

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