From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 9 11:07:59 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA06577 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:07:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA06525 for ; Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:07:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id LAA05103; Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:07:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:07:37 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Christoph Kukulies cc: freebsd-questions@freefall.FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: dhcps strangeness In-Reply-To: <19980309184300.64488@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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). Huh, okay. Are you sure the fixed address record is properly set up for the client, i.e. the ethernet address changed on the client, etc? Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message