DHCP Server not sending offers!

[Sten Carlsen]

On 18/07/14 13:25, Eugène Ngontang wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I know what you mean here. I know a dhcp server is not oblige to be in
> the same subnet as clients, but in my case it should and is, because,
> for our architecture.
> 
> @Daniel, I know the dhclient FSA functionment, I also know how to check
> log messagesw on linux, I just don't see missing offers, which is strange.
The question I really saw was this:
Do you see the DISCOVER that does not get an answer - in the logs?

The question is if it makes it's way into the server or is stopped
before reaching the server?


> 
> What I would like to mention is that things are not working as they
> should, and I want to understand why.
> 
> *Once again, it's not everytime that the server behaves like this, I
> said sometimes it stops sending offers, and when I restart the service
> it works fine, without any modification on the configuration. Dis read
> well my first post?*
> *
> *
> It's not simple network architure or configuration issue, I would have
> detect. I want to debug dhcpd, can you help me please? Where can I look
> again to locate the origin of the problem?
> *
> *
> Thanks a lot.
> 
> Regards,
> Eugène NG
> 
> 
> 2014-07-18 13:16 GMT+02:00 Simon Hobson <dhcp1 at thehobsons.co.uk
> <mailto:dhcp1 at thehobsons.co.uk>>:
> 
>     Eugène Ngontang <sympavali at gmail.com <mailto:sympavali at gmail.com>>
>     wrote:
> 
>     > If it was in the same subnet the clients could normaly nerver
>     communicate and get IP addresses from the server.
> 
>     I assume you meant to write "... was *not* in the same subnet ..." ?
>     If so, then that's not correct. You can have a server in a different
>     network to the clients - it just needs a relay agent in the network
>     local to the clients AND the ability to route unicast packets
>     between clients and server.
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