Older Macs (again)

[James Keating]

Grrrr. Lost my entire mesg when my PC disk filled up. Here it is again.

I'm running ISC dhcpd v3.0.3 on a MacMini OS X 10.4.7.

Here's my config:

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default-lease-time 259200;
max-lease-time 259300;
ddns-update-style none;
authoratative;
option subnet-mask 255.255.0.0;
option domain-name-servers 10.10.1.3, 10.10.1.190;
option domain-name "ksd140.org";

subnet 10.10.0.0 netmask 255.255.0.0 {
    option broadcast-address 10.10.255.255;
    option routers 10.10.1.1;
    range 10.10.17.1 10.10.18.254;
}
subnet 10.1.0.0 netmask 255.255.0.0 {
    option broadcast-address 10.1.255.255;
    option routers 10.1.1.1;
    range 10.1.17.1 10.1.18.254;
}
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The machines, mainly PCs, on the 10.10.0.0 network acquire leases and IPs
without a problem. Most of the machines on the 10.1.0.0 network, mainly
Macs running OS X and OS9.x, do the same.

However, some Macs running OS9.x on the 10.1.0.0 network don't acquire
a lease and don't receive an IP. Prior to switching to the MacMini with 
dhcpd,
there was an NT server running DHCP server on that network, and there were
always a lot of BAD_ADDRESS entries. The event viewer showed a lot of NAKs
from Macs requesting IPs such as 0.0.2.234 and the like. This led me to 
believe
that certain Macs running OS9.x and earlier were not properly requesting 
leases.

On the MacMini, here's what /var/log/asl.log says. I don't know if 
they're the result
of the specific machines that can't get an IP since there's no MAC addr.

[Time 2006.11.29 17:38:45 UTC] [Facility daemon] [Sender dhcpd] [PID -1] 
[Message Abandoning IP address 10.1.18.206: pinged before offer] [Level 
3] [UID -2] [GID -2] [Host earths-computer]
[Time 2006.11.29 20:02:19 UTC] [Facility daemon] [Sender dhcpd] [PID -1] 
[Message Abandoning IP address 10.1.17.207: declined.] [Level 3] [UID 
-2] [GID -2] [Host earths-computer]
[Time 2006.11.29 20:11:59 UTC] [Facility daemon] [Sender dhcpd] [PID -1] 
[Message Abandoning IP address 10.1.18.205: pinged before offer] [Level 
3] [UID -2] [GID -2] [Host earths-computer]
[Time 2006.11.30 13:42:09 UTC] [Facility daemon] [Sender dhcpd] [PID -1] 
[Message Abandoning IP address 10.1.18.208: declined.] [Level 3] [UID 
-2] [GID -2] [Host earths-computer]

Has anyone else seen this?