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Date:      Wed, 28 Jul 2004 13:19:50 -0400
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
To:        "Angelo Turetta" <aturetta@commit.it>
Cc:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Ok, who broke interface autoconfiguration?
Message-ID:  <200407281319.50296.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <00e001c47479$76d6a5e0$7c2aa8c0@lan>
References:  <20040326001705.W34892@cvs.imp.ch> <200407272350.56522.jhb@FreeBSD.org> <00e001c47479$76d6a5e0$7c2aa8c0@lan>

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On Wednesday 28 July 2004 04:04 am, Angelo Turetta wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "John Baldwin" <jhb@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!

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