This happens to me also, but my service does not use DHCP. In my case it
was the cable switch sending out ARP requests and updating it's database
of who had what ipv4 addy. It causes 10 minutes outages here and there
whenever it happens. peace,
        -Gary Huff

Anonymous wrote:
>
> Hi, I am still having this problem with my cable modem and OpenBSD. Now
> almost instantly I can't use the internet. I have ComcastHome running on
> OpenBSD 2.8 using DHCP. It seems to happen anywhere from 5 to 12 hours
> where I'll try to use the Internet and it doesn't work. I try to ping an
> address on the Internet and it just sits there, it looks on my cable modem
> as if it has activity when I try this. I will reboot the machine, and then
> it works fine, or if you wait long enough it seems to
> fix itself after a while without rebooting, I have tried changing the
> lease.time in /etc/dhclient.conf but when OpenBSD is booting it still says
> the default lease time is being used. Also, I don't know if this means
> anything, but I always get these "stray interrupt 7" when it is
> booting. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Marc

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