messages from dhclient

[Bob Hall]

On Sun, Apr 17, 2005 at 01:04:48PM +0200, Joost van Dijk wrote:
> Hello, 
> 
> I have installed dhcp to get my FreeBSD system on line, a machine which I am 
> trying to set up as a web server. I used sysinstall and it seems to work 
> correctly (this e-mail is coming from my Linux workstation). However, when 
> working on the FreeBSD machine I keep getting the following message: 
> <date & time> dhclient: send_packet: permission denied.
> What does this mean? I cannot find a reference to it in the man files.
> It is a nuisance. When I am editing a config file with vi, this message get 
> written into the file, and over cofig file lines. How can I turn it off. 

I vaguely recall that this can have more than one cause, and therefore
more than one solution. That's just a vague recollection. In my case, it
was caused by interaction between dhc protocol and my firewall. YMMV. My
Internet connection worked fine for months at a time, aside from a flood
of "send_packet: permission denied" messages. Then I would have a day or
two of periodic outages, and then I'd lose the connection completely and
have to reboot the cable modem.  When the connection was reestablished,
I'd have a new IP address.

My solution is in the archives, here:
http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/htdig/freebsd-questions/2005-January/071412.html
Again, I can't promise that it will solve your problem.

Bob Hall