Re: dhcp apparently handing out the wrong ip address

2005-01-09 Thread Alan Chandler
On Sunday 09 January 2005 00:00, Jan C. Nordholz wrote: > > > option use-host-decl-names false > > > > above option keeps failing, but fortunately I don't actually need it > > Hm, I had to google everything up - the manpage I found was > not debian-specific, so it may be that the option has a > dif

Re: dhcp apparently handing out the wrong ip address

2005-01-08 Thread Jan C. Nordholz
> > > > option use-host-decl-names false > > above option keeps failing, but fortunately I don't actually need it > Hm, I had to google everything up - the manpage I found was not debian-specific, so it may be that the option has a different name here. Its purpose is to prevent to give the string

Re: dhcp apparently handing out the wrong ip address

2005-01-08 Thread Alan Chandler
On Saturday 08 January 2005 20:58, Jan C. Nordholz wrote: > the only thing I can imagine is that the DHCP query gets matched against > _both_ hardware parameters, not one of them... and the interface querying > the IP address can never match both. I think that must be it > Have you tried splitt

Re: dhcp apparently handing out the wrong ip address

2005-01-08 Thread Jan C. Nordholz
On Sat, Jan 08, 2005 at 09:54:59AM +, Alan Chandler wrote: > [...] > The real puzzle to me, is that the only recent change to this file is to add > a > hardware address for the wireless pcmcia card. Before it was always working > > Anyone any ideas as to what is wrong? > > > my /etc/dhc

Re: dhcp apparently handing out the wrong ip address

2005-01-08 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Alan Chandler wrote: On Saturday 08 January 2005 20:25, Alan Chandler wrote: On Saturday 08 January 2005 14:35, Robert Vangel wrote: . After releasing, make sure you clean out /var/lib/dhcp3/dhcpd.leases (I think), it may cache what IP to assign to clients (although you would think the configurati

Re: dhcp apparently handing out the wrong ip address

2005-01-08 Thread Alan Chandler
On Saturday 08 January 2005 20:25, Alan Chandler wrote: > On Saturday 08 January 2005 14:35, Robert Vangel wrote: > . > > > After releasing, make sure you clean out /var/lib/dhcp3/dhcpd.leases (I > > think), it may cache what IP to assign to clients (although you would > > think the configuration w

Re: dhcp apparently handing out the wrong ip address

2005-01-08 Thread Alan Chandler
On Saturday 08 January 2005 14:35, Robert Vangel wrote: . > After releasing, make sure you clean out /var/lib/dhcp3/dhcpd.leases (I > think), it may cache what IP to assign to clients (although you would > think the configuration would override this). > > Process I would use to clean it: stop dhcp3

Re: dhcp apparently handing out the wrong ip address

2005-01-08 Thread Robert Vangel
Alan Chandler wrote: On Saturday 08 January 2005 10:00, Robert Vangel wrote: Alan Chandler wrote: Try using "fixed address " Didn't make any difference:-( Here is syslog - I manually released the old lease (Win 2000 ipconfig /release command) and then renewed it a few (7) seconds later. Jan 8 1

Re: dhcp apparently handing out the wrong ip address

2005-01-08 Thread Alan Chandler
On Saturday 08 January 2005 10:00, Robert Vangel wrote: > Alan Chandler wrote: ... > > host rabbit { > > hardware ethernet 00:06:5b:b7:9c:35; > > hardware ethernet 00:06:25:2a:fa:25; > > fixed-address rabbit.home; > > > > Try using "fixed address " Didn't make any difference:-(

Re: dhcp apparently handing out the wrong ip address

2005-01-08 Thread Robert Vangel
Alan Chandler wrote: I have a dhcp server set up at home to allocate IP addresses to my work laptop (which is set up that way to get its IP address at work). My laptop is called rabbit.home (see below) I want it to get a constant ip address so that (for instance) my NAT box can portforward cert

dhcp apparently handing out the wrong ip address

2005-01-08 Thread Alan Chandler
I have a dhcp server set up at home to allocate IP addresses to my work laptop (which is set up that way to get its IP address at work). My laptop is called rabbit.home (see below) I want it to get a constant ip address so that (for instance) my NAT box can portforward certain ports to it, and