From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jun 30 6:37:22 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from gekko.i-clue.de (server.ms-agentur.de [62.153.134.194]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F05A037B9F6 for ; Fri, 30 Jun 2000 06:37:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from so@server.i-clue.de) Received: from i-clue.de (automatix.i-clue.de [192.168.0.112]) by gekko.i-clue.de (8.9.3/8.9.3/SuSE Linux 8.9.3-0.1) with ESMTP id RAA15594; Fri, 30 Jun 2000 17:39:34 +0200 Message-ID: <395CA27F.63B395A7@i-clue.de> Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2000 15:37:03 +0200 From: Christoph Sold Reply-To: so@server.i-clue.de Organization: i-clue interactive GmbH X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en] (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Thirumalai Rajan Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: DHCP PROBLEM References: <000001bfe24a$a149f860$470aa8c0@payroll1> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Thirumalai Rajan wrote: > > > HELLO, > > I AM CHAITANYA,WORKING AS A NETWORK ENGINEER. Please do not SHOUT. SHOUTING is frowned upon in this list. (Besides: its readability is very bad, compared to mixed case.) > IN OUR COMPANY THERE'S A PROBLEM.WE ARE USING DHCP SERVER FOR > AUTOMATIC IP ADDRESSING.THE SERVER IS WORKING FINE FOR 1 MONTH.AFTER > THAT SOME CLIENT COMPUTERS ARE NOT ABLE TO GET ANY IP ADDRESS.IF I > ASSAIGN THE STATIC IP FROM THAT POOL IT WORKS FINE. > > WHATS THE PROBLEM? As you stated, the problem is DHCP leases are not revoked in a timely manner. > WHY ITS NOT GETTING IP ADDRESS AUTOMATICALLY? Probably because there is no free lease available. Have a look at your DCHP configuration file, and reduce lease time. Consult the man page for your dhcpd, also read up on how DHCP works. HTH -Christoph Sold To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message