[Kea-users] Hosts refusing lease offers?

[Klaus Steden]

Thanks for the suggestions, I checked both of those, and it looks like
we're already using valid-lifetime, renew-timer, and rebind-timer
attributes already (12H, 4H, and 6H, respectively), and based on the flags
I'm seeing in the bootp section of packet capture traffic, both client and
server are talking unicast to each other (the client is actually being
relayed by a switch, so the server wouldn't see any broadcast traffic from
the client anyway).

We're going to try a full power cycle next, as this hardware has been
sitting in the data center for several weeks already trying to initialize,
so maybe there's some weird state issue in play that we're not aware of.

Still looking.

cheers,
Klaus

On Fri, Feb 15, 2019 at 4:24 AM Thomas Andersen <than at itu.dk> wrote:

> Hi,
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> Another suggestion:
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> Have you checked with wireshark what the request and offer is?
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> We have had the same issue when it came to unicast and broadcast offers.
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> If the host had broadcast flag set in discover, it would reject any offers
> sent as unicast.
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> Most clients do not differ on this, but PXE, UEFI, iDRAC and some specific
> windows 7 installations CAN filter them if there is the slightest mismatch.
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> Kea 0.9 and 1.0 had default unicast response even though client asked for
> broadcast. Was changed in 1.1 I think.
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> Br,
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> Thomas
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> *From: *Kea-users <kea-users-bounces at lists.isc.org> on behalf of Joelson
> Vendramin <jtvendramin at yahoo.com.br>
> *Date: *Friday, 15 February 2019 at 12.05
> *To: *"KEA-Users (kea-users at lists.isc.org)" <kea-users at lists.isc.org>,
> Klaus Steden <klausfiend at gmail.com>
> *Subject: *Re: [Kea-users] Hosts refusing lease offers?
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>
> Hi Klaus,
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> I remember a similar tricky situation. Some clients complaining about
> leases offers.
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> Then I find a strange solution: configuring KEA to send "renew-timer" and
> "rebind-timer" optional parameters together with "valid-lifetime"
> (mandatory).
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> This way:
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>   "valid-lifetime": X,
>   "renew-timer": 50% * X,
>   "rebind-timer": 87,5% * X,
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> Hope this clue helps you someway.
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>
> Regards,
>
> --
>
> Joelson Vendramin
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> Em quinta-feira, 14 de fevereiro de 2019 22:36:38 BRST, Klaus Steden <
> klausfiend at gmail.com> escreveu:
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> Hi there,
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> I've got a bit of a puzzler on my hands. We've racked some new gear and
> are preparing to provision it.
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> Scope definitions have been added to Kea, and are active.
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> Hosts are on the network, and are generating DHCP requests.
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> Kea is responding as expected and offering leases, but none of these
> machines (6 racks worth) are accepting the offers, leaving them stranded.
>
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> The hardware is Dell, so it's actually the iDRAC that's not leasing, but a
> different batch of similar hardware in other racks (installed two weeks
> ago) had no such issues.
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> We're reasonably confident that it's not something on the switches, but
> for the life of me I can't identify why these aren't accepting leases.
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> I've attached a sample of the debug output in the log (cranked up to 99)
> with only DNS info redacted.
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> Again, the most confusing thing here is that a comparable platform in the
> same data center in different racks had no issues, and the only change is
> additional DHCP scopes.
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>
> thanks,
>
> Klaus
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