new machine - problems with gaim

[Mark Knecht]

On Wed, 05 Jan 2005 10:13:31 -0800, Rick Stevens
<rstevens at vitalstream.com> wrote:
> Mark Knecht wrote:

> >    In /var/log/messages I do see some strangeness:
> >
> >  Jan  4 18:26:04 Christmas dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on sit0 to
> > 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 19
> > Jan  4 18:26:04 Christmas dhclient: send_packet: Network is down
> > Jan  4 18:26:23 Christmas dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on sit0 to
> > 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 4
> > Jan  4 18:26:23 Christmas dhclient: send_packet: Network is down
> > Jan  4 18:26:27 Christmas dhclient: No DHCPOFFERS received.
> > Jan  4 18:26:27 Christmas dhclient: No working leases in persistent
> > database - sleeping.
> > Jan  4 18:28:47 Christmas su(pam_unix)[3284]: session opened for user
> > root by matt(uid=500)
> > Jan  4 18:30:04 Christmas dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on sit0 to
> > 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 8
> > Jan  4 18:30:04 Christmas dhclient: send_packet: Network is down
> > Jan  4 18:30:12 Christmas dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to
> > 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 4
> > Jan  4 18:30:12 Christmas dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on sit0 to
> > 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 18
> > Jan  4 18:30:12 Christmas dhclient: send_packet: Network is down
> >
> >    This sort of stuff is repeating a lot.
> 
> It sure looks like the DHCP server is cycling a lot.  Are you using
> your ISP's DHCP or one on your local access point/switch/router?

Is this cycling for the wired Etherenet port which I'm not using? (And
currently has no cable plugged in?)

- Mark