meaning of "xid mismatch"??

MacNeill, Scott Scott.MacNeill at aliant.ca
Mon Feb 25 18:00:27 UTC 2008


So, is this safely ignorable?

-----Original Message-----
From: dhcp-users-bounce at isc.org [mailto:dhcp-users-bounce at isc.org] On
Behalf Of Frank Bulk
Sent: Monday, February 25, 2008 1:22 PM
To: dhcp-users at isc.org
Subject: RE: meaning of "xid mismatch"??

It means "transaction id".  Every DHCP exchange is supposed to have a
unique
transaction ID, something easily seen with Wireshark.  If the DHCP
server
receives a response for a device with a different transaction ID than
what
was expected, it spits out this error.

Regards,

Frank

-----Original Message-----
From: dhcp-users-bounce at isc.org [mailto:dhcp-users-bounce at isc.org] On
Behalf
Of Jeff A. Earickson
Sent: Monday, February 25, 2008 10:16 AM
To: dhcp-users at isc.org
Subject: meaning of "xid mismatch"??

Hi,

I recently upgraded from dhcp 3.0.6 to 3.1.0, now I'm seeing
lots of:

bind update on [IP] got ack from colby: xid mismatch.

I googled and searched the MARC mailing list archives for
a plain-english description of what this means (and what to
do about it), but didn't find one.  So what does it really
mean?

Jeff Earickson
Colby College





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