Quick DHCPNAK question

Shawn Holland sholland at sandara.ca
Wed Aug 19 15:34:34 UTC 2009


Any suggestions?

On Wed, 2009-08-12 at 16:32 -0300, Shawn Holland wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Here is my dhcpd.conf file
> 
> authoritative;
> include "/etc/dhcpd.registrations";
> 
> shared-network clients {
> 
>         subnet 10.5.0.0 netmask 255.255.0.0 {
>                 deny unknown-clients;
>                 option domain-name-servers 10.5.0.1;
>                 option dhcp-server-identifier 10.5.0.1;
>                 option routers 10.5.0.1;
>                 default-lease-time 1;
>                 max-lease-time 60;
>         }
> 
>         subnet 10.1.0.0 netmask 255.255.0.0 {
>                 pool {
>                         allow unknown-clients;
>                         range 10.1.0.2 10.1.255.254;
>                         option domain-name-servers 10.1.0.1;
>                         option dhcp-server-identifier 10.1.0.1;
>                         option routers 10.1.0.1;
>                         default-lease-time 0;
>                         max-lease-time 5;
>                 }
>         }
> }
> 
> Here is my dhcpd.registrations file
> 
> host 001122334455 {
>         hardware ethernet 00:11:22:33:44:55;
>         fixed-address 10.5.0.122;
> }
> 
> If 00:11:22:33:44:55 requests for an IP in the 10.1.0.0/16 subnet it is
> not sent a DHCPNAK, dhcpd is just quiet. Why is this, and is it possible
> to have it send a nak for a known host trying to request an IP in my
> pool for unknown hosts like above?
> 
> 
> 
-- 
Regards,
Shawn Holland
Sandara Technologies Ltd.




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