Date: Mon, 12 Jan 1998 11:14:30 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Christoph Kukulies <kuku@gilberto.physik.RWTH-Aachen.DE> Cc: freebsd-questions@freefall.FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: dhcps Q: Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980112111251.21665D-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <19980112082439.43153@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de>
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On Mon, 12 Jan 1998, Christoph Kukulies wrote: > > > dhcps[17050]: Assign 192.168.0.12 to the client(cid is "1:0x0080c88428ab:192.168 > > > .0.0") till "Thu Jan 1 00:59:59 1970". > > > > > > Just a question: Is that a configuration problem or just the > > > value that is taken to indicate eternity in unix ? > > > > > > > Jan 1 1970 at midnight is the UNIX epoch. How did the client configure > > itself, using BOOTP, or do you give infinite leases? > > I chose manual allocation in /etc/dhcpdb.pool (BTW, there > seems to be a discrepancy between the dhcps man page and > the port. Some files go into /etc some in /var > while the man page says in BSD os's this is /var/db/dhcbdb.xxx) That's possible; the port will bend the paths to fit the BSD idea of file oganization. (/etc/ should be usable read-only.) If there are other files that need to be moved you can contact the port's maintainer. > # entries for manual allocation (DHCP, BOOTP) > 3001: :ipad=192.168.0.12:hstn="lebook.kuku.de":tblc=subnet0:clid="1:0x0080c88428ab": Yeah, it's giving you an infinite lease. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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