Mailing List os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com Archived Message #1546

From: "Lewis G Rosenthal" <os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com> Full Headers
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Subject: Re: [OS2Wireless]Re: T23 internal cards success
Date: Sat, 07 Oct 2006 14:54:33 -0400
To: OS/2 Wireless Users Mailing List <os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com>

Carl, did you run the script again *after* killing the process? The results you list below make sense if you did *not* run the script again to start the DHCP client on the "new" interface.

Isn't there an Xcenter widget which displays the current IP? I know that sometime back, John Angelico (IIRC) scripted a little REXX to mimic the ipconfig WinNT command, too. All of that aside, if the new instance of DHCPCD really isn't started (and the way to tell would be to check the PID before running the script and then again, after) then DHCPMON is telling the truth, and only a zombie of the original DHCPCD may be left.

On 10/07/06 12:50 pm, Carl Gehr thus wrote :
Basically, same results.

1) TOP show DHCPCD running as Task 77
2) Killed DHCPCD
3) Ran CMD to restart WiFi connection on LAN1
3) TOP says DHCPCD running as Task 109
4) Closed DHCPMon and Restarted it.
5) The three status lines:
   DDNS host name:  Not Registered
   IP address:      Not Configured
   Status:          DHCP client is not running
6) Display:  Configuration->Current_configuration
   ====>  Totally blank

As I said, this did work up until a couple of months ago.  The main
piece of info that I want displayed is my IP address.

THANKS for the suggestions.

Carl


On Sat, 07 Oct 2006 10:21:24 -0400, Lewis G Rosenthal wrote:

  
I just run the script again to activate the interface. I, too, get the "DHCP Client is not running" message. It's probably a timing thing, where we kill off the one instance but need to insert a do nothing loop (or a few of them) to wait long enough before we try to start it up again. The problem is probably more noticeable with the faster machines than it might have been some years ago, but I never ran this stuff on the older hardware (ThinkPad 360-era).

I'll see if I can experiment with this before Warpstock (read: this weekend), and even touch on it during my workshop.

Run TOP the next time and see whether DHCPCD may be exiting. Or, kill it    
>from TOP and then run the script. See what you get.
  
On 10/06/06 09:31 pm, Carl Gehr thus wrote :
    
Lewis,
I don't think that's my problem...

In this case, the DHCP Monitor shows:
Settings->Monitor_Interface->LAN1
Status:  DHCP Client is not running.

The first of the above is as it should be.  The second is wrong!
  i.e.,  When I display the active tasks [Ctrl-Task_List on eCenter],
         there, right at the top is:
                DHCPCD.EXE (82)
Methinks DHCPMON is confused!  And, it did not work this way a while
back.  But, I've forgotten when it changed or what I might have done to
cause the change.  FWIW, the DHCP Monitor is V4.1.

Carl

On Mon, 25 Sep 2006 09:37:25 -0400, Lewis G Rosenthal wrote:

  
      
Carl, I've found that when that issue occurs, I simply wait a bit, and then re-start DHCPMON. Eventually, it gets the idea that the interface it previously accessed is no longer there, and gets the new information. Bug? Probably. I haven't seen it overly persistent, however.

On 09/24/06 11:57 pm, Carl Gehr thus wrote :
            
Lewis,

In the set of commands you show below [I use them almost verbatim.],
there is the command that stops the DHCP Monitor.  [ dhcpmon -t ]

BUT, I have had problems trying to get the monitor back so it will
display the status, config, etc., of the newly started LAN1.  I've
tried specifying:
dhcpmon -i LAN1
but this seems to do absolutely nothing.

Can this be done?  What, if anything, am I missing?

TIA,
Carl

                
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-- Lewis
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Rosenthal & Rosenthal, LLC
Accountants / Network Consultants
 New York / Northern Virginia           www.2rosenthals.com
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