Date: Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:07:37 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Christoph Kukulies <kuku@gilberto.physik.RWTH-Aachen.DE> Cc: freebsd-questions@freefall.FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: dhcps strangeness Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980309110647.5101A-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <19980309184300.64488@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de>
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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
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