From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040910 Description of problem: From /var/log/messages: -- Sep 12 07:43:50 porkkana dhclient: DHCPREQUEST on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 Sep 12 07:46:10 porkkana kernel: eth0: link up, 100Mbps, full-duplex, lpa 0x45E1 Sep 12 07:46:10 porkkana dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 6 Sep 12 07:46:10 porkkana dhclient: receive_packet failed on eth0: Network is down Sep 12 07:46:16 porkkana dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 11 Sep 12 07:46:27 porkkana dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 18 Sep 12 07:46:45 porkkana dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 16 Sep 12 07:47:01 porkkana dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 9 Sep 12 07:47:10 porkkana dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 1 -- Network went down at 07:46:10. It came up at 09:20, but this server never got back. The reason for this is that the server stopped from trying one minute later the network went down. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): initscripts-7.93.7-1 How reproducible: Didn't try Steps to Reproduce: 1. Set up eth0 to use DHCP 2. Disconnect the network 3. See the server stopping from trying after one minute Actual Results: The server stopped from trying after one minute from the network "crash". Expected Results: The server should have been trying to send DHCPDISCOVER and not stop - ever. Additional info:
Generally, interfaces are configured to only check for an IP address once. Later releases are configurable (see PERSISTENT_DHCLIENT in sysconfig.txt).