From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Aug 23 01:08:17 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1842916A41F for ; Tue, 23 Aug 2005 01:08:17 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from akbeech@gmail.com) Received: from vfemail.net (miwi2dsl-a234.wi.tds.net [216.170.248.235]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8E94D43D49 for ; Tue, 23 Aug 2005 01:08:16 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from akbeech@gmail.com) Received: (qmail 83182 invoked by uid 85); 23 Aug 2005 01:08:12 -0000 Received: from akbeech@gmail.com by mail.vfemail.net by uid 0 with qmail-scanner-1.16 (clamscan: 0.75.1. spamassassin: 2.63. Clear:. Processed in 1.82205 secs); 23 Aug 2005 01:08:12 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.2.200?) (alaska@vfemail.net@209.124.141.64) by miwi2dsl-a234.wi.tds.net with SMTP; 23 Aug 2005 01:08:10 -0000 From: Beecher Rintoul Organization: NorthWind Communications To: Kevin Kinsey Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2005 17:08:00 -0800 User-Agent: KMail/1.8.2 References: <200508221501.20949.akbeech@gmail.com> <430A6F7B.5050306@daleco.biz> In-Reply-To: <430A6F7B.5050306@daleco.biz> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200508221708.04567.akbeech@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: dhcpd question 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: Tue, 23 Aug 2005 01:08:17 -0000 On Monday 22 August 2005 04:36 pm, Kevin Kinsey wrote: > Beecher Rintoul wrote: > >I'm working on a box that has a (legal) wireless connection to a business > >across the street. After installing isc-dhcp to handle their inside > > network I'm getting a lot of the following messages: > > > >dhcpd: DHCPDISCOVER from 00:0e:35:b9:02:a4 via ndis0: network > > 192.168.2/24: no free leases. > > > >Is the local server in any way interfearing with others connection to the > >wireless access dhcp, or is this just a repeat of the broadcast request? > > The wireless subnet is listed in dhcpd.conf with no services. > > > >Thanks, > > > >Beech > > Probably, your answer is "no". From RFC 2131: > > "If no address is available, the server may choose to report the > problem to the system administrator." > > So, best guess ... when asked, your server replies "sorry" and > the wireless clients go on looking. But I'm not familiar enough > with DHCP client behavior to know *for sure*. Seems likely, > though, from my experience w/clients. Surely anything else > would violate POLA.... > > Should be possible to muck around in /etc/syslog.conf and quiet > the daemon down, though. > > Kevin Kinsey Thanks, didn't think so. My experience with wireless is fairly limited, and I've never seen that message before with wired networks. There haven't been any complaints from the access people so I'm just going to ignore it. Beech -- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Beech Rintoul - System Administrator - akbeech@gmail.com /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | NorthWind Communications \ / - NO HTML/RTF in e-mail | 201 East 9th Avenue Ste.310 X - NO Word docs in e-mail | Anchorage, AK 99501 / \ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------