Wildly excessive DHCPREQUESTs
David W. Hankins
David_Hankins at isc.org
Tue Feb 19 22:36:45 UTC 2008
On Tue, Feb 19, 2008 at 04:12:44PM -0600, John Hascall wrote:
> about 11,000/day. Does anyone have any idea what might make a
> box do a DHCPREQUEST/ACK cycle about every five seconds all day,
> day after day (despite getting a 4 day lease)?
I've seen something similar with...of all things...Nintendo Wii's.
When they're suspended but have 'connect24' enabled, they seem to
reconfirm network attachment with a DHCPREQUEST inbetween brief sleep
cycles (7-20 minutes).
My intuition would be to see if the client is having its interface
state cycled rapidly like that; many clients will attempt a request
to confirm they haven't changed networks.
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