Workstation can't obtain IP

[Simon Hobson]

James Keating wrote:

>No network changes. No complaints from other users about their machines
>on either subnet.
>
>Here's the /var/log/system.log. It's pretty sparse.
>
>May  7 07:42:54 earths-computer dhcpd: Abandoning IP address
>10.1.18.166: pinged before offer
>May  7 08:07:55 earths-computer dhcpd: Abandoning IP address
>10.1.18.156: pinged before offer
>May  7 10:32:23 earths-computer dhcpd: Abandoning IP address
>10.1.17.157: pinged before offer
>May  8 07:36:46 earths-computer dhcpd: Abandoning IP address
>10.1.18.156: declined.
>May  8 07:41:49 earths-computer dhcpd: Abandoning IP address
>10.1.17.156: declined.
>May  8 11:06:48 earths-computer dhcpd: Abandoning IP address
>10.1.18.154: pinged before offer


That's not good.

Pinged before offer means that the server pinged the address before 
offering it and got a reply.

declined means that the client declined the offer, typically after 
getting an ARP reply for the address.


What we can't do is tell why !