Constant DHCPREQUEST

[Bill Shirley]

Maybe it's looking for the autoconfig file wpad.dat and not finding it.

dhcpd.conf
option local-pac-server         code 252 = text;
option local-pac-server "http://wpad.example.com:80/wpad.dat";

Bill


On 3/18/2015 12:51 PM, Gary Stainburn wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> While looking at my network I've spotted that my laptop is constantly sending
> DHCPREQUEST.  Everything appears to be working fine, both on my laptop and
> elsewhere apart from this. One other client, a Win7 PC appears to have the
> same problem, but everything else on the network seems fine and refreshes
> only infrequently.
>
> Any ideas?
>
>
> /var/log/messages on my laptop:
>
>
> Mar 18 16:47:56 gary dhclient[1483]: DHCPREQUEST on wlp0s20u3 to 10.1.1.253
> port 67 (xid=0x7d0ac797)
> Mar 18 16:47:56 gary NetworkManager[907]: DHCPREQUEST on wlp0s20u3 to
> 10.1.1.253 port 67 (xid=0x7d0ac797)
> Mar 18 16:47:56 gary dhclient[1483]: DHCPREQUEST on wlp0s20u3 to 10.1.1.253
> port 67 (xid=0x7d0ac797)
> Mar 18 16:47:56 gary NetworkManager: DHCPREQUEST on wlp0s20u3 to 10.1.1.253
> port 67 (xid=0x7d0ac797)
> Mar 18 16:48:12 gary dhclient[1483]: DHCPREQUEST on wlp0s20u3 to 10.1.1.253
> port 67 (xid=0x7d0ac797)
> Mar 18 16:48:12 gary NetworkManager[907]: DHCPREQUEST on wlp0s20u3 to
> 10.1.1.253 port 67 (xid=0x7d0ac797)
> Mar 18 16:48:12 gary dhclient[1483]: DHCPREQUEST on wlp0s20u3 to 10.1.1.253
> port 67 (xid=0x7d0ac797)
> Mar 18 16:48:12 gary NetworkManager: DHCPREQUEST on wlp0s20u3 to 10.1.1.253
> port 67 (xid=0x7d0ac797)
>
>
> my DHCP server:
>
> Mar 18 16:51:03 sid dhcpd: DHCPACK on 10.1.103.236 to 00:0f:60:02:d0:c9 (gary)
> via p4p1
> Mar 18 16:51:06 sid dhcpd: DHCPREQUEST for 10.1.4.238 from 8c:89:a5:51:42:16
> (KSALES5) via p4p1:2
> Mar 18 16:51:06 sid dhcpd: DHCPACK on 10.1.4.238 to 8c:89:a5:51:42:16
> (KSALES5) via p4p1:2
> Mar 18 16:51:06 sid dhcpd: DHCPREQUEST for 10.1.4.238 from 8c:89:a5:51:42:16
> (KSALES5) via p4p1
> Mar 18 16:51:06 sid dhcpd: DHCPACK on 10.1.4.238 to 8c:89:a5:51:42:16
> (KSALES5) via p4p1
> Mar 18 16:51:14 sid dhcpd: DHCPREQUEST for 10.1.4.238 from 8c:89:a5:51:42:16
> (KSALES5) via p4p1:2
> Mar 18 16:51:14 sid dhcpd: DHCPACK on 10.1.4.238 to 8c:89:a5:51:42:16
> (KSALES5) via p4p1:2
> Mar 18 16:51:14 sid dhcpd: DHCPREQUEST for 10.1.4.238 from 8c:89:a5:51:42:16
> (KSALES5) via p4p1
> Mar 18 16:51:14 sid dhcpd: DHCPACK on 10.1.4.238 to 8c:89:a5:51:42:16
> (KSALES5) via p4p1
> Mar 18 16:51:18 sid dhcpd: DHCPREQUEST for 10.1.103.236 from 00:0f:60:02:d0:c9
> (gary) via p4p1:2
> Mar 18 16:51:18 sid dhcpd: DHCPACK on 10.1.103.236 to 00:0f:60:02:d0:c9 (gary)
> via p4p1:2
> Mar 18 16:51:18 sid dhcpd: DHCPREQUEST for 10.1.103.236 from 00:0f:60:02:d0:c9
> (gary) via p4p1
> Mar 18 16:51:18 sid dhcpd: DHCPACK on 10.1.103.236 to 00:0f:60:02:d0:c9 (gary)
> via p4p1