Re: annoying dhclient error messages

From: Lowell Gilbert (freebsd-questions-local_at_be-well.ilk.org)
Date: 11/23/04

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    To: Christopher Illies <christopher.illies@molmed.ki.se>
Date: 23 Nov 2004 09:17:50 -0500

    Christopher Illies <christopher.illies@molmed.ki.se> writes:

    > I recently installed FreeBSD 5.3 on my desktop at work. DHCP was
    > configured with sysinstall (/etc/rc.conf: ifconfig_fxp0="DHCP"), and
    > /etc/dhclient.conf is empty. In fact I do have a good network
    > connection. The problem is that I get the following annoying error
    > messages about every two to five minutes:
    >
    > Nov 13 13:43:59 Klabautermann dhclient: slp-directory-agent: 4 extra
    > bytes at end of array
    > Nov 13 13:43:59 Klabautermann last message repeated 2 times
    > Nov 13 13:43:59 Klabautermann dhclient: parse_option_param: Bad format
    > a
    > Nov 13 13:46:26 Klabautermann dhclient: slp-directory-agent: 4 extra
    > bytes at end of array
    > Nov 13 13:46:26 Klabautermann last message repeated 2 times
    > Nov 13 13:46:26 Klabautermann dhclient: parse_option_param: Bad format
    > a
    >
    > These messages are more a nuisance than anything else, still I would
    > like to get rid of them. I updated the system last week (tag=RELENG_5),
    > but that did not help. Interestingly, I do not see these messages when
    > running Debian GNU/Linux on the very same computer. Google did not
    > reveal anything helpful.

    This really does look like the server is sending out some bad
    parameters. Probably you were using a different DHCP client on Linux.

    I'd suggest just changing the syslog configuration to filter those
    into a new log file, and block them from the console. Remember to
    check the file once in a while.
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