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Old 25th July 2011
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Originally Posted by sepuku View Post
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starting network
DHCPDISCOVER on em0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 2
DHCPDISCOVER on em0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 4
DHCPDISCOVER on em0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 10
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I sometimes get this at boot-time. DHCP does a four-way handshake when negotiating the IP address lease & DHCPDISCOVER is the first step issued by the client waiting for a DHCP server to reply. If the server does not respond before timing out, the simplest action to take next is simply initiate the handshake again via:

# dhclient em0
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