Hello Everyone-
I recently got the ADSL service from USWest. I am running it through a Cisco
675 router/modem and have it up and running in SuSE linux with Dhclient.
Although its working, I am not quite sure why it is. I was hoping someone on
the list could shed some light on the subject of how this works.
My if config output looks like this:
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:60:8C:E8:4F:9D
inet addr:10.0.0.2 Bcast:10.0.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:1000 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:350 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
Interrupt:7 Base address:0x300
As you can see, it lists my IP as a dummy address (10.0.0.2). When I do a
traceroute to any other machine I get output like this:
traceroute to 128.118.25.3 (128.118.25.3), 30 hops max, 40 byte packets
1 10.0.0.1 (10.0.0.1) 1 ms 1 ms 1 ms
2 * * *
3 * * *
...
It never finds the machine (even though I can get to it with ping or through
the web). So, what is my IP address? How am I connected to the network?
Finally, it appears that dhclient is trying to renew its lease every 80
seconds. Although in the dhclient config file I have it set to renew every 24
hours (84600 seconds.) I know this because my /var/log/messages file is filled
with this:
Aug 6 22:13:46 topeka dhclient: DHCPREQUEST on eth0 to 10.0.0.1 port 67
Aug 6 22:13:46 topeka dhclient: DHCPACK from 10.0.0.1
Aug 6 22:13:46 topeka dhclient: bound to 10.0.0.2 -- renewal in 80 seconds.
Does anyone know why this is happening.
Thanks in advance...
julian
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d a t e: 06-Aug-2000 t i m e: 22:08:41
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