Re: NetBSD 9.1 VPS: Too many dhclient XMT: solicit messages

[Roy Marples <roy%marples.name@localhost>]

On 11/04/2021 19:19, Mayuresh wrote:
> Such messages are appearing every 2 minutes 2s.
>
> Apr 11 23:32:35 localhost dhclient[2032]: XMT: Solicit on vioif0, interval 110920ms.
> Apr 11 23:34:27 localhost dhclient[2032]: XMT: Solicit on vioif0, interval 115560ms.
> Apr 11 23:36:22 localhost dhclient[2032]: XMT: Solicit on vioif0, interval 117380ms.
> Apr 11 23:38:20 localhost dhclient[2032]: XMT: Solicit on vioif0, interval 119250ms.
> Apr 11 23:40:19 localhost dhclient[2032]: XMT: Solicit on vioif0, interval 109500ms.
> Apr 11 23:42:09 localhost dhclient[2032]: XMT: Solicit on vioif0, interval 124470ms.
> Apr 11 23:44:14 localhost dhclient[2032]: XMT: Solicit on vioif0, interval 110970ms.
>
> Anything to look out for?

There is no DHCP (probably DHCPv6, but unsure) server on the other end of vioif0 
or there is an issue with it replying like say a firewall.

2 minutes is quite a short upper limit for solicits - the RFC standard for both 
DHCP and DHCPv6 is one hour.

I would advise using dhcpcd instead, but I doubt you'll see any different - 
maybe less noise in the logs by default.

Roy