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Date:      Fri, 24 Oct 2008 08:24:45 -0400
From:      "Bob McConnell" <rvm@CBORD.com>
To:        "Svein Halvor Halvorsen" <svein.h@lvor.halvorsen.cc>, <questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   RE: DHCP server
Message-ID:  <FF8482A96323694490C194BABEAC24A003719169@Email.cbord.com>
In-Reply-To: <4901B01E.2050007@lvor.halvorsen.cc>
References:  <490198C4.8040907@lvor.halvorsen.cc><20081024102328.GA75968@torus.slightlystrange.org> <4901B01E.2050007@lvor.halvorsen.cc>

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On Behalf Of Svein Halvor Halvorsen
>Daniel Bye wrote:
>> On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 11:43:32AM +0200, Svein Halvor Halvorsen
wrote:
>>> I'm not sure if this is an issue with my dhcp server or the client,
but=20
>>> since I seem to get troubles with two different clients, I'm
thinking it=20
>>> might be the server:
>>>
>=20
> The dhcp server has netmask /23, and are also handing out this netmask

> to clients.
>=20
> I have lots of clients running FreeBSD, Windows and OS X not=20
> complaining. I do however, have one OS X client that's been constantly

> complaining, and recently also an Archlinux machine. It used to work
on=20
> the Linux client up until recently.
>=20
> It might be the client, in which case I should probably ask some=20
> Lunux-folks, but since one of the apples also have a problem, I
thought=20
> I might be the server.
>=20
> Can I diagnose this any further?

Set up Wireshark to capture the UDP packets. Compare a successful
assignment with the unsuccessful variations. See which side stops
responding in each conversation and troubleshoot that end. There may be
some clues in the event log on MS-Windows or the syslog files on OS-X.

Bob McConnell



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