dhclient sending request to port 67 locking system up

[Colin Law]

On 6 November 2017 at 17:24, Scott Blair <scott.blair at gmail.com> wrote:
> I have been getting the following errors in my syslog file and it is causing
> my system to hard lock.
>
>
> dhclient[1300]: DHCPREQUEST of 192.168.0.108 on enp6s0 to 192.168.0.1 port
> 67 (xid=0x7a4f385)
>
> dhclient[1300]: send_packet: Operation not permitted

I don't think those messages are causing a lock (assuming you mean a
complete computer lockup), they may be a symptom of some underlying
problem. Give us some more detail on the symptoms and the history of
the system (just installed, used to work and suddenly started failing,
etc).

Colin

>
> dhclient[1300]: dhclient.c:2386: Failed to send 300 byte long packet over
> fallback interface.
>
> dhclient[1300]: DHCPREQUEST of 192.168.0.108 on enp6s0 to 192.168.0.1 port
> 67 (xid=0x7a4f385)
>
> dhclient[1300]: send_packet: Operation not permitted
>
>
> I opened port 67 in the firewall and that didn't work.
>
> I also tried this :
>
> $IPTABLES  -I INPUT -i $LAN_IFACE -p udp --dport 67:68 --sport 67:68 -j
> ACCEPT
>
>
>
> But it comes back -I command not found.
>
> Any Ideas?
>
>
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Scott Blair
>
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