From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Sep 7 8:15:19 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from broccoli.graphics.cornell.edu (broccoli.graphics.cornell.edu [128.84.247.53]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8D2A214C1C for ; Tue, 7 Sep 1999 08:15:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mkc@Graphics.Cornell.EDU) Received: from graphics.cornell.edu (localhost.graphics.cornell.edu) by broccoli.graphics.cornell.edu with ESMTP (1.37.109.16/16.2) id AA229147091; Tue, 7 Sep 1999 11:11:31 -0400 Message-Id: <199909071511.AA229147091@broccoli.graphics.cornell.edu> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: "Paul T. Root" Cc: mailist@whoweb.com, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: dhcpd lease time-outs In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 07 Sep 1999 09:25:13 CDT." <199909071425.JAA06627@iaces.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 07 Sep 1999 11:11:30 -0400 From: Mitch Collinsworth Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Cool. I'll check again. I take it this is recent. I thought it was only a week or so since I last looked. (Man, knowledge rot happens quick when you have a 3-day weekend! :-) -Mitch >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 >> > >> > >> >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >> >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message >> >> >> >> >> >> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >> with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message >> > > >-- >I don't have the authority to approve that. >--from "Excuses, Excuses" *the* compendium of excuses by Leigh W. Rutledge To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message