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Cause of Regular DHCP Messages in the System Logs (Doc ID 2772453.1)

Last updated on MAY 04, 2021

Applies to:

Oracle Compute Cloud Service - Version N/A and later
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure - Version N/A and later
Linux OS - Version Oracle Linux 6.0 and later
Information in this document applies to any platform.

Goal

Understand the meaning of the following log messages and the cause of the output:

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Apr 26 11:48:40 hostname dhclient [3037]: DHCPREQUEST on eth0 to 192.168.100.1 port 67 (xid = 0x47022100)
Apr 26 11:48:40 hostname dhclient [3037]: DHCPACK from 192.168.100.1 (xid = 0x47022100)
Apr 26 11:48:42 hostname dhclient [3037]: bound to 192.168.100.20 --renewal in 3600 seconds.
Apr 26 11:53:05 hostname dhclient [3037]: DHCPREQUEST on eth0 to 192.168.100.1 port 67 (xid = 0x47022100)
Apr 26 11:53:05 hostname dhclient [3037]: DHCPACK from 192.168.100.1 (xid = 0x47022100)
Apr 26 11:53:07 hostname dhclient [3037]: bound to 192.168.100.20 --renewal in 3550 seconds.
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Solution

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