Re: Ok, who broke interface autoconfiguration?

From: John Baldwin <jhb_at_FreeBSD.org>
Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2004 13:19:50 -0400
On Wednesday 28 July 2004 04:04 am, Angelo Turetta wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "John Baldwin" <jhb_at_FreeBSD.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, July 28, 2004 5:50 AM
>
> > What happens for me is that it configures the interface for IP 0.0.0.0,
>
> but it
>
> > sends out lease requests from its earlier lease IP (10.x.x.x) rather than
> > 0.0.0.0.  The problem for me is when I switch between my home network
> > (192.168.0.x) and my work network (10.x.x.x), in which cases the source
> > IP address it is using is invalid and I think the DHCP server is thus
>
> ignoring
>
> > the request.  Removing the leases file and restarting dhclient seems to
> > be the only fix.  It also seems to have recently been broken (like in the
>
> last
>
> > few weeks or months).
>
> I've seen this happen (I mean, problem getting a lease after moving to a
> different network) when one of the ISC DHCP servers had not been set to
> authoritative (and the client was Windows2000).
>
> Angelo Turetta
>
> ------------------- from the sample dhcpd.conf
> # If this DHCP server is the official DHCP server for the local
> # network, the authoritative directive should be uncommented.
> authoritative;
> ---------------------------------------------------

Aha!  Thanks!

-- 
John Baldwin <jhb_at_FreeBSD.org>  <><  http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/
"Power Users Use the Power to Serve"  =  http://www.FreeBSD.org
Received on Wed Jul 28 2004 - 15:24:06 UTC

This archive was generated by hypermail 2.4.0 : Wed May 19 2021 - 11:38:03 UTC