Hi fellow BSD'ers, I am having real problems with dhclient and connections dropping sporadically, sometimes a minute and others 10 hours or anything in between. The setup is 5.3 running PF, the box is connected to a router+modem running in half-bridge mode which requires DHCP.
After a couple of weeks of searching and trying to establish whether the problem was my router, firewall, other security settings or the dhclient I have found David Gerard's workaround email titled: 'WORKAR?OUND: dhclient problems in 5.3-RELEASE'. In his email he mentions getting dhclient-2.0pl5 from isc.org which I decided to get, however on the site they are only offering versions 3.0.2 and 3.0.3b1. I am trying to keep the number of installed ports to a minimum on the server that needs to run the DHCP client, so I do not want to install much although I may install a different FTP client if needed. If I try and ftp to ftp.isc.org, the standard ftp client with FreeBSD does not seem to work with the site, I get 229 Entering Extended Passive Mode (|||24431|) 500 Bad EPRT protocol. 500 Illegal PORT command. 425 Use PORT or PASV first. and if I try PASSV I get ?Invalid command. So my questions are: o Is the dhclient-2.0pl5 in the ftp site ? o If so can I get ftp to work with the site (I am behind a pf firewall) with NAT ? o I can navigate the ftp site and maybe get so if I cannot get ftp to work with the site if someone could let me know the path, I might be able to get the file ? o Where else that is trusted may I get the src ? o Will version 3.0.2 also solve the problem ? Thanks for any help on this matter. Tim Preece Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"