pings from dhcp1.cl.msu.edu

[Ben Pfaff]

Edward Glowacki <glowack2@msu.edu> writes:

> On Sun, 7 Jan 2001, Ben Pfaff wrote:
> > I just noticed that I'm receiving periodic pings from
> > dhcp1.cl.msu.edu on my machine at pfaffben.user.msu.edu:
> > 
> > Jan  7 19:56:07 pfaffben icmplogd: ping from dhcp1.cl.msu.edu [35.8.2.22]
> > Jan  7 19:59:26 pfaffben icmplogd: ping from dhcp1.cl.msu.edu [35.8.2.22]
> > Jan  7 20:04:01 pfaffben icmplogd: ping from dhcp1.cl.msu.edu [35.8.2.22]
> > Jan  7 20:06:00 pfaffben icmplogd: ping from dhcp1.cl.msu.edu [35.8.2.22]
> 
> IIRC DHCP pings an IP before assigning it.  Why it would ping 4x,
> I don't know, unless you were requesting an IP a lot or something.

Those are just samples.  It does it a lot, actually:

blp:~(0)$ grep 'ping from dhcp1.cl.msu.edu' /var/log/syslog|wc
     88     792    6512

Spacing varies between less than 1 minute apart to more than 10.
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