On 5 April 2014 01:48, Suresh Rajagopalan <sraja97 at gmail.com> wrote: > Apr 4 13:59:04 gateway2 dhcpd: Abandoning IP address 192.168.109.235: > pinged before offer The IP address is in use. DHCPd wont lease out an IP that responds to a ping. You have manually configured clients in a DHCP range. Fix your network. Steve