From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 16 18:44:27 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from malkav.snowmoon.com (machine-126-237.cdcsd.k12.ny.us [208.20.126.237]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2DB7437BA4B for ; Thu, 16 Mar 2000 18:44:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jaime@malkav.snowmoon.com) Received: (qmail 46022 invoked from network); 17 Mar 2000 02:44:19 -0000 Received: from localhost.snowmoon.com (127.0.0.1) by localhost.snowmoon.com with SMTP; 17 Mar 2000 02:44:19 -0000 Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2000 21:44:19 -0500 (EST) From: Jaime Kikpole To: Fred Lomas Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ??? In-Reply-To: <00a801bf8f6a$c2b04320$0e65a8c0@fred.encanto.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 16 Mar 2000, Fred Lomas wrote: > anyone seen this ??? what does it mean > www# Mar 15 21:08:52 www dhcpd: Abandoning IP address 192.168.101.17: > > pinged before offer > > > > www# Mar 15 21:08:52 www dhcpd: Abandoning IP address 192.168.101.17: > > pinged before offer > > Mar 15 21:08:52 www dhcpd: Abandoning IP address 192.168.101.17: pinged > > before offer Assuming that I understand this correctly, you are running a DHCP server. It was about to offer the IP address "192.168.101.17" to a DHCP-requesting workstation, but then the server discovered that said IP is in use elsewhere in the network. Thusly, it "abandoned" it. IIRC, an abandond IP is marked as "do not offer this IP to future workstations". This behavior keeps two DHCP servers from tripping over each other. Very useful feature while you're migrating from an old server to a new one. Alternately, someone else on your network is setting a static IP that they didn't report to you. Jaime To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message