Unix/linux cli-command to test lease and see what server is answering?

Ricardo Stella stella at rider.edu
Mon Oct 1 14:14:26 UTC 2007


There's something out there called dhcping which you could script.  I
use via bigbrother/hobbit to test the server running...

http://www.mavetju.org/unix/general.phtml

My .02...

Todd Snyder wrote:
> I've never been able to find a tool that would do that - I ended up
> making a small linux VM that I use for testing.  Not so useful on a
> remote box, but it works great when I'm trying out new configs.
>
> You could use tcpdump/wireshark to watch for the requests.  It's not
> quite as friendly as a nice utility, but..
>
> Cheers.
>
> Todd. 
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: dhcp-users-bounce at isc.org [mailto:dhcp-users-bounce at isc.org] On
> Behalf Of Piero Giobbi
> Sent: Sunday, September 30, 2007 3:57 PM
> To: dhcp-users at isc.org
> Subject: Unix/linux cli-command to test lease and see what server is
> answering?
>
> Hi all.
>
> Tried to find out how i can see who answers and dhcp requiest and other
> usefull command for unix /linux, haven't really find any. Would prefer
> to use the "builtin" software for OS X and debian for instance, but all
> great tools are welcome. All help are apreciated.
>
> thx
>
> p
>
>
>
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