no DHCPREQUEST after DHCPOFFER

Simon Hobson dhcp at thehobsons.co.uk
Fri May 26 21:43:27 UTC 2006


Howard Wang wrote:

>I ran into some trouble for a server which the Dynamic allocation does not
>seem to work, the manual allocation does work. I am quite sure the problem
>is at server side. the server is suse10.
>
>the /var/log/messages shows:
>dhcpd: DHCPDISCOVER from 00:80:82:52:0c:39 via eth1   
>dhcpd: DHCPOFFER on 192.168.200.87 to 00:80:82:52:0c:39 via eth1
>
>
>then the DHCPREQUEST does not follow.
>
>what could be wrong ? is it related to the ddns ?

Do you know if the client made the request ?
Anything else logged immediately before or after this - especially 
anything dns related ?
Do you supply any different options using static address vs dynamic address ?

Simon


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