age link problem.

[kama]

Hi,

I have a bit of a problem. It seems that whenever dhclient tries to talk
to the dhcpserver the age goes DOWN and UP. (every 20 minutes). During the
day I did not have dhcp enabled (hence ip was 0.0.0.0), there are no
messages like this.

Jan 15 18:15:09 gw kernel: age0: link state changed to DOWN
Jan 15 18:15:11 gw kernel: age0: link state changed to UP
Jan 15 18:15:39 gw kernel: age0: link state changed to DOWN
Jan 15 18:15:41 gw kernel: age0: link state changed to UP
Jan 15 18:16:07 gw kernel: age0: link state changed to DOWN
Jan 15 18:16:07 gw dhclient: New IP Address (age0): X.X.X.X
Jan 15 18:16:07 gw dhclient: New Subnet Mask (age0): 255.255.255.0
Jan 15 18:16:07 gw dhclient: New Broadcast Address (age0): X.X.X.Y
Jan 15 18:16:07 gw dhclient: New Routers (age0): X.X.X.Z
Jan 15 18:16:09 gw kernel: age0: link state changed to UP
Jan 15 19:31:37 gw kernel: age0: link state changed to DOWN
Jan 15 19:31:39 gw kernel: age0: link state changed to UP
Jan 15 19:31:42 gw kernel: age0: link state changed to DOWN
Jan 15 19:31:42 gw dhclient: New IP Address (age0): X.X.X.X
Jan 15 19:31:42 gw dhclient: New Subnet Mask (age0): 255.255.255.0
Jan 15 19:31:42 gw dhclient: New Broadcast Address (age0): X.X.X.Y
Jan 15 19:31:42 gw dhclient: New Routers (age0): X.X.X.Z
Jan 15 19:31:44 gw kernel: age0: link state changed to UP

age0 at pci0:3:0:0:        class=0x020000 card=0x82261043 chip=0x10481969
rev=0xb0 hdr=0x00
    vendor     = 'Attansic (Now owned by Atheros)'
    device     = 'L1 Gigabit Ethernet 10/100/1000Base-T Ethernet Controller'
    class      = network
    subclass   = ethernet

FreeBSD 7.1-STABLE #0: Wed Jan 14 22:58:52 CET 2009

Generic kernel.

/Bjorn