Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2008 08:24:45 -0400 From: "Bob McConnell" <rvm@CBORD.com> To: "Svein Halvor Halvorsen" <svein.h@lvor.halvorsen.cc>, <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: DHCP server Message-ID: <FF8482A96323694490C194BABEAC24A003719169@Email.cbord.com> In-Reply-To: <4901B01E.2050007@lvor.halvorsen.cc> References: <490198C4.8040907@lvor.halvorsen.cc><20081024102328.GA75968@torus.slightlystrange.org> <4901B01E.2050007@lvor.halvorsen.cc>
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On Behalf Of Svein Halvor Halvorsen >Daniel Bye wrote: >> On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 11:43:32AM +0200, Svein Halvor Halvorsen wrote: >>> I'm not sure if this is an issue with my dhcp server or the client, but=20 >>> since I seem to get troubles with two different clients, I'm thinking it=20 >>> might be the server: >>> >=20 > The dhcp server has netmask /23, and are also handing out this netmask > to clients. >=20 > I have lots of clients running FreeBSD, Windows and OS X not=20 > complaining. I do however, have one OS X client that's been constantly > complaining, and recently also an Archlinux machine. It used to work on=20 > the Linux client up until recently. >=20 > It might be the client, in which case I should probably ask some=20 > Lunux-folks, but since one of the apples also have a problem, I thought=20 > I might be the server. >=20 > Can I diagnose this any further? Set up Wireshark to capture the UDP packets. Compare a successful assignment with the unsuccessful variations. See which side stops responding in each conversation and troubleshoot that end. There may be some clues in the event log on MS-Windows or the syslog files on OS-X. Bob McConnell
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