Abandoned messages.

[Keith]

I hate replying to myself, and I'm even going to top post but as a further
to this there are 5 clients all trying to get the same IP address
and the dhcpd.log messages are all the same as below...

The pool is right at the edges of being full but why would 5 clients all
be trying to get the same IP? Also I have a few IP's in a Lease end state
of Never. Do I have to manually edit dhcpd.leases to get rid of those
leases?

Again thanks,
Keith

On Tue, 8 Jan 2008, Keith wrote:

|->
|->Ive got three clients that are doing this:
|->
|->Jan  8 11:03:35 netreg1 dhcpd: DHCPDISCOVER from 00:11:43:41:84:2c via
|->69.176.166.1
|->
|->Jan  8 11:03:35 netreg1 dhcpd: DHCPOFFER on 69.176.166.126 to
|->00:11:43:41:84:2c (Bekah) via 69.176.166.1
|->
|->Jan  8 11:03:35 netreg1 dhcpd: DHCPREQUEST for 69.176.166.126
|->(209.145.111.37) from 00:11:43:41:84:2c (Bekah) via 69.176.166.1
|->
|->Jan  8 11:03:35 netreg1 dhcpd: DHCPACK on 69.176.166.126 to
|->00:11:43:41:84:2c (Bekah) via 69.176.166.1
|->
|->Jan  8 11:03:35 netreg1 dhcpd: Abandoning IP address 69.176.166.126:
|->declined.
|->
|->Why would a client go through the whole discover/offer/request/ack then
|->the server at the end of it say declined, when the client ACK'd the
|->request?
|->
|->lease 69.176.166.126 {
|->  starts 2 2008/01/08 18:09:45;
|->  ends 2 2008/01/08 18:09:46;
|->  binding state free;
|->  hardware ethernet 00:e0:18:57:f7:d4;
|->  uid "\001\000\340\030W\367\324";
|->--
|->lease 69.176.166.126 {
|->  starts 2 2008/01/08 18:09:46;
|->  ends 2 2008/01/15 18:09:46;
|->  binding state active;
|->  next binding state free;
|->  hardware ethernet 00:e0:18:57:f7:d4;
|->--
|->lease 69.176.166.126 {
|->  starts 2 2008/01/08 18:09:46;
|->  ends 2 2008/01/08 18:09:46;
|->  tstp 2 2008/01/08 18:09:46;
|->  binding state abandoned;
|->  next binding state free;
|->--
|->
|->And in dhcpd.leases I have that IP address in three different
|->states...active, free and abandoned.
|->
|->Then in a blink as I'm grepping over the dhcpd.leases file, 69.176.166.126
|->is not in there as dhcpd seems to have rewritten the lease file.
|->
|->Its only 3 clients that are doing this on this one subnet and seems kind
|->of a tricky situation.
|->
|->Any pointers on what happening here?
|->
|->Thanks,
|->Keith
|->
|->
|->