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[ILUG] pump, dhclient and stuck sockets

[ILUG] pump, dhclient and stuck sockets

Scott Wunsch ilug at tracking.wunsch.org
Tue Feb 20 17:09:37 GMT 2001


On Tue, 20-Feb-2001 at 12:16:41 +0000, Paul J Collins wrote:

> So now I can't start *any* DHCP client, my IP address is going to time
> out, there will wailing and gnashing of teeth and I'll have to reboot
> the box...  unless... one of you brave souls can tell me how to tell
> the kernel to forget about 0.0.0.0:68 so that dhclient can listen on
> it.

Try running this:

	fuser 68/udp

as root.  If a process has ahold of UDP port 68, this should tell you its
PID.  You can then go about killing that process.

If fuser doesn't list a process as owning that port, uh...

-- 
Take care,
Scott \\'unsch

... I thought I was a wit, and I was half right.




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