Workstation can't obtain IP
Simon Hobson
dhcp1 at thehobsons.co.uk
Tue May 8 19:45:57 UTC 2007
James Keating wrote:
>No network changes. No complaints from other users about their machines
>on either subnet.
>
>Here's the /var/log/system.log. It's pretty sparse.
>
>May 7 07:42:54 earths-computer dhcpd: Abandoning IP address
>10.1.18.166: pinged before offer
>May 7 08:07:55 earths-computer dhcpd: Abandoning IP address
>10.1.18.156: pinged before offer
>May 7 10:32:23 earths-computer dhcpd: Abandoning IP address
>10.1.17.157: pinged before offer
>May 8 07:36:46 earths-computer dhcpd: Abandoning IP address
>10.1.18.156: declined.
>May 8 07:41:49 earths-computer dhcpd: Abandoning IP address
>10.1.17.156: declined.
>May 8 11:06:48 earths-computer dhcpd: Abandoning IP address
>10.1.18.154: pinged before offer
That's not good.
Pinged before offer means that the server pinged the address before
offering it and got a reply.
declined means that the client declined the offer, typically after
getting an ARP reply for the address.
What we can't do is tell why !
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