From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Oct 24 12:42:53 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CDE86106566B for ; Fri, 24 Oct 2008 12:42:53 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rvm@CBORD.com) Received: from smssmtp.cbord.com (mx1.cbord.com [24.39.174.11]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8EDEE8FC1D for ; Fri, 24 Oct 2008 12:42:53 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rvm@CBORD.com) X-AuditID: ac1f0165-0000022400000220-65-4901beba5a52 Received: from Email.cbord.com ([10.1.1.100]) by smssmtp.cbord.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.1830); Fri, 24 Oct 2008 08:25:30 -0400 X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.5 Content-class: urn:content-classes:message MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2008 08:24:45 -0400 Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <4901B01E.2050007@lvor.halvorsen.cc> X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: Thread-Topic: DHCP server Thread-Index: Ack1yuWGCC7wuww3S0avmVNLCyy8igAB8Uog References: <490198C4.8040907@lvor.halvorsen.cc><20081024102328.GA75968@torus.slightlystrange.org> <4901B01E.2050007@lvor.halvorsen.cc> From: "Bob McConnell" To: "Svein Halvor Halvorsen" , X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAA== Cc: Subject: RE: DHCP server X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2008 12:42:53 -0000 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