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From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
Reply-To: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
To: Christoph Kukulies <kuku@gilberto.physik.RWTH-Aachen.DE>
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Subject: Re: dhcps Q:
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On Mon, 12 Jan 1998, Christoph Kukulies wrote:

> > > dhcps[17050]: Assign 192.168.0.12 to the client(cid is "1:0x0080c88428ab:192.168
> > > .0.0") till "Thu Jan  1 00:59:59 1970". 
> > > 
> > > Just a question: Is that a configuration problem or just the
> > > value that is taken to indicate eternity in unix ?
> > > 
> > 
> > Jan 1 1970 at midnight is the UNIX epoch.  How did the client configure
> > itself, using BOOTP, or do you give infinite leases?
> 
> I chose manual allocation in /etc/dhcpdb.pool (BTW, there
> seems to be a discrepancy between the dhcps man page and
> the port. Some files go into /etc some in /var
> while the man page says in BSD os's this is /var/db/dhcbdb.xxx)

That's possible; the port will bend the paths to fit the BSD idea of file
oganization.  (/etc/ should be usable read-only.)  If there are other
files that need to be moved you can contact the port's maintainer.

> # entries for manual allocation (DHCP, BOOTP)
> 3001:	:ipad=192.168.0.12:hstn="lebook.kuku.de":tblc=subnet0:clid="1:0x0080c88428ab":

Yeah, it's giving you an infinite lease.  

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major