How to Renew DHCP IP Address with Cisco Router?

If anyone can help me with this, I would appreciate it.

I can't figure out how to have my Cisco router renew its DHCP lease with my cable ISP. I appear to not be the only person with this problem. I don't have any ACLs which would deny DHCP traffic, either.

This is the portion of my router config where I set up DHCP on the external interface: 

interface FastEthernet0/0

 ip address dhcp

 ip access-group 101 in

 ip nat outside

 ip route-cache flow

 duplex auto

 speed auto

 no cdp enable

Eventually my lease expires and I have to disable DHCP on fa0/0 because I can't reach the Internet: 

gill#conf term

Enter configuration commands, one per line.  End with CNTL/Z.

gill(config)#int fa0/0

gill(config-if)#no ip address dhcp

Upon issuing these commands my router releases its IP address, as seen with Tcpdump: 

17:51:51.097987 68.50.168.243.68 > 172.30.100.36.67:  xid:0x2570

 C:68.50.168.243 ether 0:c:ce:4e:53:a0 vend-rfc1048

 DHCP:RELEASE SID:172.30.100.36 CID:"cisco-000c.ce4e.53a0-Fa0/0"

 [len 27] T99:115.99.111.45.48.48.48.99.46.99.101.52.101.46.53.51.97.48.45.70.97.48.47.48.255.

 0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.

 0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0

When I re-enable DHCP, my box receives a new IP: 

gill(config-if)#ip address dhcp

gill(config-if)#^Z

gill#

17w6d: %SYS-5-CONFIG_I: Configured from console by console

Here's what Tcpdump sees. First we have the DHCP server making itself known and advertising what looks like a cable modem config file: 

17:53:05.028597 10.71.136.1.67 > 255.255.255.255.68:  xid:0x88291bab flags:0x8000

 Y:10.71.136.74 S:172.30.100.35 G:10.71.136.1 ether 0:c:41:52:e4:72

 file "mbefcmu10v2_v1_silver_c01" vend-rfc1048

 DHCP:OFFER SID:172.30.100.36 SM:255.255.248.0 DG:10.71.136.1

 LT:1209600 TZ:-18000 TS:172.30.100.35



17:53:05.121631 10.71.136.1.67 > 255.255.255.255.68:  xid:0x88291bab flags:0x8000

 Y:10.71.136.74 S:172.30.100.35 G:10.71.136.1 ether 0:c:41:52:e4:72

 file "mbefcmu10v2_v1_silver_c01" vend-rfc1048

 DHCP:ACK SID:172.30.100.36 SM:255.255.248.0 DG:10.71.136.1

 LT:1209600 TZ:-18000 TS:172.30.100.35

Next my router asks for an IP from its unknown 0.0.0.0 address to the local broadcast 255.255.255.255 address: 

17:53:07.180465 0.0.0.0.68 > 255.255.255.255.67:  xid:0x1e7e flags:0x8000

 ether 0:c:ce:4e:53:a0 vend-rfc1048 DHCP:DISCOVER MSZ:1152

 CID:"cisco-000c.ce4e.53a0-Fa0/0"[len 27]

 T99:115.99.111.45.48.48.48.99.46.99.101.52.101.46.53.51.97.48.45.70.97.

 48.47.48.12.4.103.105.108.108.55.8.1.6.15.44.3.33.150.43.52.1.3.255.

 0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.

 0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0

Now it seems the DHCP server tries to ping the proposed address, and then offers an IP: 

17:53:07.197072 172.30.100.36 > 68.50.168.243: icmp: echo request (DF)



17:53:07.298545 10.71.136.1.67 > 255.255.255.255.68:  xid:0x1e7e flags:0x8000

 Y:68.50.168.243 S:172.30.100.35 G:68.50.168.1 ether 0:c:ce:4e:53:a0

 file "mdcm245_v1_silver_c01" vend-rfc1048

 DHCP:OFFER SID:172.30.100.36 SM:255.255.254.0 DN:"manass01.va.comcast.net"

 NS:68.48.0.13,68.87.96.15,68.48.0.5,68.87.96.16 DG:68.50.168.1 LT:604800

My box sends out another request. I thought this was a duplicate until I noticed the longer "T99" field. 

17:53:07.300195 0.0.0.0.68 > 255.255.255.255.67:  xid:0x1e7e flags:0x8000

 ether0:c:ce:4e:53:a0 vend-rfc1048 DHCP:REQUEST MSZ:1152

 CID:"cisco-000c.ce4e.53a0-Fa0/0"[len 27]

 T99:115.99.111.45.48.48.48.99.46.99.101.52.101.46.53.51.97.48.45.70.97.

 48.47.48.54.4.172.30.100.36.50.4.68.50.168.243.51.4.0.9.58.128.12.4.103.105.1

 08.108.55.8.1.6.15.44.3.33.150.43.52.1.3.255.

 0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0



17:53:07.317881 10.71.136.1.67 > 255.255.255.255.68:  xid:0x1e7e flags:0x8000

 Y:68.50.168.243 S:172.30.100.35 G:68.50.168.1 ether 0:c:ce:4e:53:a0

 file "mdcm245_v1_silver_c01" vend-rfc1048

 DHCP:ACK SID:172.30.100.36 SM:255.255.254.0 DN:"manass01.va.comcast.net"

 NS:68.48.0.13,68.87.96.15,68.48.0.5,68.87.96.16 DG:68.50.168.1 LT:604800



17:53:07.319116 arp reply 68.50.168.243 is-at 0:c:ce:4e:53:a0



17:53:07.599113 10.71.136.1.67 > 255.255.255.255.68:  xid:0x7b7aa96 flags:0x8000

 Y:10.71.137.184 S:172.30.100.35 G:10.71.136.1 ether 0:8:e:ad:20:c4

 file "msb4220_v1_silver_c01" vend-rfc1048

 DHCP:OFFER SID:172.30.100.36 SM:255.255.248.0

 DG:10.71.136.1 LT:1209600 TZ:-18000 TS:172.30.100.35



17:53:07.687973 10.71.136.1.67 > 255.255.255.255.68:  xid:0x7b7aa96 flags:0x8000

 Y:10.71.137.184 S:172.30.100.35 G:10.71.136.1 ether 0:8:e:ad:20:c4

 file "msb4220_v1_silver_c01" vend-rfc1048

 DHCP:ACK SID:172.30.100.36 SM:255.255.248.0

 DG:10.71.136.1 LT:1209600 TZ:-18000 TS:172.30.100.35



17:53:16.265276 arp who-has 68.50.168.1 tell 68.50.168.243



17:53:16.272724 arp reply 68.50.168.1 is-at 0:3:fe:e3:8:70



17:53:16.420161 10.71.136.1.67 > 255.255.255.255.68:  xid:0xffffa114 flags:0x8000

 Y:10.71.116.208 S:172.30.100.35 G:10.71.136.1 ether 0:8:e:1b:a1:14

 file "msb4100_v1_silver_c01" vend-rfc1048

 DHCP:OFFER SID:172.30.100.36 VO:128 SM:255.255.254.0

 DG:10.71.116.1 LT:1209600 TZ:-18000 TS:172.30.100.35



17:53:16.511679 10.71.136.1.67 > 255.255.255.255.68:  xid:0xffffa114 flags:0x8000

 Y:10.71.116.208 S:172.30.100.35 G:10.71.136.1 ether 0:8:e:1b:a1:14

 file "msb4100_v1_silver_c01" vend-rfc1048

 DHCP:ACK SID:172.30.100.36 VO:128 SM:255.255.254.0

 DG:10.71.116.1 LT:1209600 TZ:-18000 TS:172.30.100.35

When everything is squared away I can ping my gateway: 

17:53:16.609622 68.50.168.243 > 68.50.168.1: icmp: echo request



17:53:16.616916 68.50.168.1 > 68.50.168.243: icmp: echo reply

I obviously haven't figured out what all of this is, but I wanted to document it for future reference. It appears Cisco has a new command in 12.3 to release and renew DHCP addresses differently.

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