From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 9 10:40:48 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA29960 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 9 Mar 1998 10:40:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gilberto.physik.RWTH-Aachen.DE (gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de [137.226.30.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA29929 for ; Mon, 9 Mar 1998 10:40:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kuku@gilberto.physik.RWTH-Aachen.DE) Received: (from kuku@localhost) by gilberto.physik.RWTH-Aachen.DE (8.8.7/8.8.7) id SAA02424; Mon, 9 Mar 1998 18:43:01 GMT (envelope-from kuku) Message-ID: <19980309184300.64488@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de> Date: Mon, 9 Mar 1998 18:43:00 +0000 From: Christoph Kukulies To: Doug White Cc: Christoph Kukulies , freebsd-questions@freefall.FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: dhcps strangeness References: <199803091232.MAA01098@gilberto.physik.RWTH-Aachen.DE> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.81e In-Reply-To: ; from Doug White on Mon, Mar 09, 1998 at 10:23:21AM -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Mar 09, 1998 at 10:23:21AM -0800, Doug White wrote: > On Mon, 9 Mar 1998, Christoph Kukulies wrote: > > > I'm using dhcp (wide-dhcp) for a while now under FreeBSD 2.2.5 > > and it used to work but since some days - maybe caused by a change I made > > to the rc files or something - it doesn't work anynore: > > > > From the server I'm getting something like: > > > > Mar 9 13:19:23 duke dhcps[187]: DHCPDISCOVER: No more available address in the pool > > > > This happens exactly when I start the dhcpc by hand on the client. > > Well, I would bet that it means (surprise) that the DHCP address pool has > been exhausted. You need to shorten the lease duration on your server so > that addresses are recycled faster. > > Check permission on the DHCP-related items, to make sure it can write the > database okay. I don't use a pool. I just assigned a fixed address to a certain ethernet address. (see posted /etc/dhcpdb.pool). > > In the meantime you are SOL unless you can explicitly expire addresses you > know are unused. Also, /var/db/dhcpd.bind was empty at the time I started over the server. > > Doug White | University of Oregon > Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant > http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major > -- --Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message