Strange behavior encountered with dhcp 4.0.0 on Solaris 10
David W. Hankins
David_Hankins at isc.org
Thu Jan 22 22:42:24 UTC 2009
On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 01:05:15PM -0500, ladislas.adamku at videotron.com wrote:
> Problem:
> - we start the dhcpd daemon with "/opt/sbin/dhcpd", in debug mode. It runs
> fine for some time...
> - after a certain time (varies from hours to minutes), the log ceases to be
> updated, so does the leasing of new addresses
> - to restart, we must first kill the current dchpd and then restart dhcpd.
> Nothing in the log indicates why dhcpd stopped delivering new addresses.
I would focus my investigation on the /reception of packets/ by the
dhcpd process. We've had a chain of problems on the Solaris platform
with the local flavor of raw sockets (some folks report having to use
'snoop' separately to get packets to flow to dhcpd).
--
David W. Hankins "If you don't do it right the first time,
Software Engineer you'll just have to do it again."
Internet Systems Consortium, Inc. -- Jack T. Hankins
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