Firstly, let me say, that this isn't causing me any issues. Everything appears to be working fine, but it just looks a little strange to me.
Here's what I see in /var/log/message:
Code:
Oct 18 10:54:03 The-Tardis dhcpcd[3071]: eth0: leased 98.148.127.1 for 62812 seconds
Oct 18 10:54:03 The-Tardis dhcpcd[3071]: eth0: adding IP address 98.148.127.1/21
Oct 18 10:54:03 The-Tardis dhcpcd[3071]: eth0: adding default route via 98.148.120.1 metric 0
Oct 18 10:54:03 The-Tardis dhcpcd.sh: interface eth0 has been configured with old IP=98.148.127.1
Oct 18 19:37:29 The-Tardis dhcpcd[3071]: eth0: renewing lease of 98.148.127.1
Oct 19 02:10:05 The-Tardis dhcpcd[3071]: eth0: leased 98.148.127.1 for 62845 seconds
Oct 19 02:10:05 The-Tardis dhcpcd[3071]: eth0: adding IP address 98.148.127.1/21
Oct 19 02:10:05 The-Tardis dhcpcd[3071]: eth0: adding default route via 98.148.120.1 metric 0
Oct 19 02:10:05 The-Tardis dhcpcd.sh: interface eth0 has been configured with old IP=98.148.127.1
Oct 19 10:53:47 The-Tardis dhcpcd[3071]: eth0: renewing lease of 98.148.127.1
Oct 19 17:26:33 The-Tardis dhcpcd[3071]: eth0: leased 98.148.127.1 for 62834 seconds
Oct 19 17:26:33 The-Tardis dhcpcd[3071]: eth0: adding IP address 98.148.127.1/21
Oct 19 17:26:33 The-Tardis dhcpcd[3071]: eth0: adding default route via 98.148.120.1 metric 0
Oct 19 17:26:33 The-Tardis dhcpcd.sh: interface eth0 has been configured with old IP=98.148.127.1
Oct 20 02:10:10 The-Tardis dhcpcd[3071]: eth0: renewing lease of 98.148.127.1
And /var/log/syslog:
Code:
Oct 18 10:54:03 The-Tardis dhcpcd[3071]: eth0: lost lease, attemping to rebind
Oct 19 02:10:05 The-Tardis dhcpcd[3071]: eth0: lost lease, attemping to rebind
Oct 19 17:26:33 The-Tardis dhcpcd[3071]: eth0: lost lease, attemping to rebind
It looks like every other attempt, by the dhcpcd daemon, to renew the lease fails, and it has to rebind.
Is anyone else seeing this behaviour, or is it my cable ISP that's causing it.
Also, it appears my cableISP is forcing an MTU of 576.
Code:
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:e0:81:57:0f:3e
inet addr:98.148.127.1 Bcast:255.255.255.255 Mask:255.255.254.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:576 Metric:1
RX packets:1000027 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:601731 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:336199735 (320.6 MiB) TX bytes:114616867 (109.3 MiB)
Interrupt:20 Base address:0x2000
I've tried forcing a value of 1500, with /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1.conf, but it always gets clobbered back to 576.
Is this normal.
Cheers.