Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2009 06:45:33 -0400 From: James Tanis <james@tanis.us> To: Olivier Nicole <Olivier.Nicole@cs.ait.ac.th> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: dhcpd related issues Message-ID: <8F1438D3-CDAC-41C3-8334-7C3708B6D78B@tanis.us> In-Reply-To: <200909210241.n8L2fVTG002381@banyan.cs.ait.ac.th> References: <7640F3CC-586D-4087-A78B-DF43F515A8E4@tanis.us> <200909210241.n8L2fVTG002381@banyan.cs.ait.ac.th>
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Yeah, it seems to be the case that enough traffic was being generated to delay the dhcp leases that the client computers were giving up. I used dhcping to watch and witnessed it in action. Moving dhcp to another server solved the issue. Likely I'll be moving some other services off that server soon to cut down on other "hotspot" related problems. -- James Tanis Technical Coordinator Computer Science Department Monsignor Donovan Catholic High School On Sep 20, 2009, at 10:41 PM, Olivier Nicole wrote: > Hi James, > >> I have a FreeBSD 7.0 gateway/server with isc-dhcpd 3.1.2p1_2. Late >> yesterday I began having some unique and intermittent issues. >> Basically, random computers will all of a sudden lose their dhcp >> leases and be unable to contact the dhcp server. > > I did not see any reply to your question. > > It happened to me that a secondary switch was working badly with > DHCP. If I rebooted the switch, it would work for a while, then fail > again. But that was a sort of random failure, some ports would be > affected sometime. The problem would occur a the first lease in the > morning rather than at renewal time. > > As it was a cheap switch, unmanageable, I replaced it. > >> Sep 17 14:03:15 grendel dhcpd: ICMP Echo reply while lease >> 192.168.1.253 valid. >> Sep 17 15:25:19 grendel dhcpd: ICMP Echo Reply for 192.168.1.74 late >> or spurious. >> >> which doesn't seem particularly relevant or heinous. Many more >> computers than the ones above have been affected. > > I don't remember ever seeing such error, but I would think that late > or spurions is not that innocent: it could be the symptom of a switch > not working at its nominal speed. > > Of course you could also consider a computer on that switch being > infected by some kind of virus and generating so much traffic it takes > your switch out. > > Bests, > > Olivier
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