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From: Kai Krakow <hurikhan77@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: losing network IP address
Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2017 22:30:35
Message-Id: 20170321232515.3757187b@jupiter.sol.kaishome.de
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: losing network IP address by Neil Bothwick
1 Am Tue, 21 Mar 2017 22:17:50 +0000
2 schrieb Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>:
3
4 > On Tue, 21 Mar 2017 20:25:18 +0100, Kai Krakow wrote:
5 >
6 > > If it's systemd-networkd, you could check those logs after the
7 > > problem occurred:
8 > >
9 > > # journalctl -b -u systemd-networkd.service | fgrep -i dhcpv4
10 > >
11 > > Apparently, it doesn't tell you what the DHCP server is by MAC
12 > > address, but the reported "via" at least tells you the IP.
13 > >
14 > > It looks like this:
15 > >
16 > > Mar 17 19:21:33 jupiter systemd-networkd[680]: enp5s0: DHCPv4
17 > > address 192.168.4.102/24 via 192.168.4.254
18 >
19 > That doesn't appear to be as helpful as you would think, I just tried
20 > it and got
21 >
22 > Mar 21 09:02:56 fenchurch systemd-networkd[495]: wlan0: DHCPv4 address
23 > 192.168.1.6/24 via 192.168.1.42
24 >
25 > Which looks fine and 192.168.1.42 is the address of my router, but
26 > that router is not my DHCP server. I double checked and
27 >
28 > 1) DHCP is turned off on the router
29 > 2) The dnsmasq log on my DHCP server box shows it issuing that
30 > address at that time.
31
32 Ah, okay, so "via" announces the route. Good that we sorted that out
33 (and good to know) ;-)
34
35 Well, then fall back to tcpdump. You can filter it to DHCP traffic. You
36 can also use wireshark, it's a bit more easy to use as a beginner -
37 because it's graphical.
38
39 --
40 Regards,
41 Kai
42
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