Question about leases

Darren perl-list at network1.net
Mon Apr 17 17:24:50 UTC 2006


David,
The offer is sent directly back to the relay agent (according to the 
packet header in ethereal capture).

I have forwarded the packet captures from the ISP to dhcp-bugs at isc.org


David W. Hankins wrote:

>On Mon, Apr 17, 2006 at 12:07:36PM -0400, Darren wrote:
>  
>
>>As you can see, the two servers are even offering the Dlink 614+ two 
>>different IP Addresses.  According to the ISP, a packet sniff shows that 
>>the offer packets are reaching the client and are being ignored for some 
>>reason.
>>    
>>
>
>Is the offer:
>
>1) Sent to the all-ones broadcast MAC address?
>
>2) Sent to the all-ones 'limited broadcast' IP address (255.255.255.255)?
>
>If you answered no to either of those questions, that is probably the
>error.  Otherwise you should probably let us see the packet traces if
>you don't mind publishing them (or just send them to dhcp-bugs at isc.org).
>
>I think then the lease state is irrelevant for the problem you're having
>(if it would just REQUEST, one server would ACK, and any stale UID's
>would get dropped upon receipt of the binding update).
>
>  
>




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