Date: Tue, 7 Sep 1999 09:25:13 -0500 (CDT) From: "Paul T. Root" <proot@iaces.com> To: mkc@Graphics.Cornell.EDU (Mitch Collinsworth) Cc: mailist@whoweb.com, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: dhcpd lease time-outs Message-ID: <199909071425.JAA06627@iaces.com> In-Reply-To: <199909071412.AA228413571@broccoli.graphics.cornell.edu> from Mitch Collinsworth at "Sep 7, 99 10:12:51 am"
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v3 is in beta now. And dynamic updating of host names into
DNS is a big draw. If I get a spare hour at work, I'm going
to bring it up.
In a previous message, Mitch Collinsworth said:
>
> Are you catching dhcp activity to a log file with syslog?
> I have this in my syslog.conf:
>
> daemon.* /var/log/dhcplog
>
> and /var/log/dhcplog contains a log of all dhcpd activity. Quite
> handy when time comes to debug a problem.
>
> Also why are you using dhcpd v3? Last time I looked at the isc dhcpd
> web page they were still insisting that v3 is very alpha yet, and
> unless you have a need for one of its new features you should stick
> with v2 for now. Not saying you don't, but if what you've shown of
> your config file is the whole thing, you can certainly do it with v2.
>
> Anyhow your config looks reasonable to me, but I'm running v2. I
> don't know how many v3 users you'll find on freebsd-questions.
>
> -Mitch
>
>
> >I'm using isc-dhcpd V3.alpha on FreeBSD v3.0 and have
> >lease time-outs configured for 86400 seconds (for both
> >max-lease-time and default-lease-time) in the
> >/etc/dhcpd.conf file.
> >
> >However, winipcfg on my win98 box and the dhcpd.leases
> >file on my FreeBSD server both indicate that leases
> >are timing out after only 3 seconds. I know that
> >dhcpd is reading the config file because I can change
> >other parameters and see them take effect when I
> >manually renew the lease. I've tried placing the
> >lease time-out definitions within the config file
> >both globally and within the ip address grouping for
> >my private network, but the lease is always delivered
> >with a 3 second time out.
> >
> >Log files provided below. Does anyone have any
> >suggestions?
> >
> ># cat /etc/dhcpd.conf
> >server-identifier 192.168.1.1;
> >
> >subnet 192.168.1.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 {
> > option subnet-mask 255.255.255.0;
> > option broadcast-address 192.168.1.255;
> > option routers 192.168.1.1;
> > max-lease-time 86400;
> > default-lease-time 86400;
> > range 192.168.1.10 192.168.1.253;
> >}
> >
> ># cat dhcpd.leases
> >lease 192.168.1.10 {
> > starts 6 1999/09/04 15:20:47;
> > ends 6 1999/09/04 15:20:50;
> > hardware ethernet 00:a0:cc:24:85:30;
> > uid 01:00:a0:cc:24:85:30;
> > client-hostname "AMD400";
> >}
> >lease 192.168.1.10 {
> > starts 6 1999/09/04 15:20:48;
> > ends 6 1999/09/04 15:20:51;
> > hardware ethernet 00:a0:cc:24:85:30;
> > uid 01:00:a0:cc:24:85:30;
> > client-hostname "AMD400";
> >}
> >lease 192.168.1.10 {
> > starts 6 1999/09/04 15:20:49;
> > ends 6 1999/09/04 15:20:52;
> > hardware ethernet 00:a0:cc:24:85:30;
> > uid 01:00:a0:cc:24:85:30;
> > client-hostname "AMD400";
> >}
> >lease 192.168.1.10 {
> > starts 6 1999/09/04 15:20:50;
> > ends 6 1999/09/04 15:20:53;
> > hardware ethernet 00:a0:cc:24:85:30;
> > uid 01:00:a0:cc:24:85:30;
> > client-hostname "AMD400";
> >}
> >
> >
> >Jon
> >
> >
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