Re: DHCPCD and Static IP's
Joseph Malicki (jmalicki@clampton.com)
Tue, 15 Dec 1998 05:47:48 -0500
>> Well, my University's DHCP server attempts to hand out static IP's based on
>> MAC address (not foolproof however, I have gotten several other IP's now and
>> then)... but it gets that message every once in a while, with no obvious
>reason
>> why..... If you get any ideas, I could try to test them for you some
time....
>> (at least client side). But DHCP works flawlessly in all Windows boxes on
>the
>> network, so most likely dhcpcd trips up on some sort of data that the
>server is
>> handing out, or does something odd so that the server doesn't always
like the
>> message....
>
>I think the Windows clients just behave as everything in Windows:
>If something goes wrong try again and resume next...
>
>Maybe dhcpcd should also try several times...solved this via a shell script.
>
>Thomas
>
I'll try that, but sometimes it seems to go out for HOURS at a time for the
Linux
client (manually retrying every minute or so for a while, then every 10
minutes),
while working on windows....
If anyone wants a tcpdump, I may be able to get one sometime in January.
Joseph Malicki
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