Re: age link problem.

On Thu, 15 Jan 2009, kama wrote:

>
> Hi,
>
> I have a bit of a problem. It seems that whenever dhclient tries to talk
> to the dhcpserver the age goes DOWN and UP. (every 20 minutes). During the
> day I did not have dhcp enabled (hence ip was 0.0.0.0), there are no
> messages like this.
>
> Jan 15 18:15:09 gw kernel: age0: link state changed to DOWN
> Jan 15 18:15:11 gw kernel: age0: link state changed to UP
> Jan 15 18:15:39 gw kernel: age0: link state changed to DOWN
> Jan 15 18:15:41 gw kernel: age0: link state changed to UP
> Jan 15 18:16:07 gw kernel: age0: link state changed to DOWN
> Jan 15 18:16:07 gw dhclient: New IP Address (age0): X.X.X.X
> Jan 15 18:16:07 gw dhclient: New Subnet Mask (age0): 255.255.255.0
> Jan 15 18:16:07 gw dhclient: New Broadcast Address (age0): X.X.X.Y
> Jan 15 18:16:07 gw dhclient: New Routers (age0): X.X.X.Z
> Jan 15 18:16:09 gw kernel: age0: link state changed to UP
> Jan 15 19:31:37 gw kernel: age0: link state changed to DOWN
> Jan 15 19:31:39 gw kernel: age0: link state changed to UP
> Jan 15 19:31:42 gw kernel: age0: link state changed to DOWN
> Jan 15 19:31:42 gw dhclient: New IP Address (age0): X.X.X.X
> Jan 15 19:31:42 gw dhclient: New Subnet Mask (age0): 255.255.255.0
> Jan 15 19:31:42 gw dhclient: New Broadcast Address (age0): X.X.X.Y
> Jan 15 19:31:42 gw dhclient: New Routers (age0): X.X.X.Z
> Jan 15 19:31:44 gw kernel: age0: link state changed to UP
>
> age0_at_pci0:3:0:0:        class=0x020000 card=0x82261043 chip=0x10481969
> rev=0xb0 hdr=0x00
>     vendor     = 'Attansic (Now owned by Atheros)'
>     device     = 'L1 Gigabit Ethernet 10/100/1000Base-T Ethernet Controller'
>     class      = network
>     subclass   = ethernet
>
> FreeBSD 7.1-STABLE #0: Wed Jan 14 22:58:52 CET 2009
>
> Generic kernel.
>
> /Bjorn

After having it enabled for awhile, it does not happen that often. dont
know why it reported it every 20 minutes before.

Now it occurs every now and then. Sometimes there are hours between them.
But its always DOWN - UP - DOWN - dhcp renew - UP.

/Bjorn