Also sprach Jeff Mcadams
I played with the DHCP capabilities in...ah...5.0.8 I believe it was, and there were still problems with it. Unfortunately, I didn't get a chance to check it out in 5.0.9 yet. I may see if I can get a chance to play with it tomorrow and see if they fixed it. If I remember correctly, it didn't handle renewing leases very well at all...I believe (and looking back through my email correspondence seems to confirm this) renewal requests are sent in for the IP address "0.0.0.0" rather than for the actual IP address in use. Obviously a problem there. Like I said...I'll try to check out the DHCP setup again tomorrow and see if they got that corrected in 5.0.9. I truly hope they did...'cause being able to manage all your Arc IP pools from a central DHCP server will be *seriously* cool. :)
Well...its *better*...but still not quite right. My apologies to 3Com for not getting around to checking this actually during the beta...just didn't have enough hours in the day. This isn't really a critical feature at this point, but I certainly do see the advantages of it so I want to try to help you all get it working. :) Jun 2 11:28:04 quiz dhcpd: DHCPREQUEST for 204.255.236.215 from 00:c0:49:10:e3:16 via hme0 Jun 2 11:28:04 quiz dhcpd: DHCPACK on 204.255.236.215 to 00:c0:49:10:e3:16 via hme0 Jun 2 11:28:07 quiz dhcpd: DHCPREQUEST for 204.255.236.215 from 00:00:00:00:00:00 via hme0 Jun 2 11:28:07 quiz dhcpd: DHCPACK on 204.255.236.215 to 00:00:00:00:00:00 via hme0 Jun 2 11:28:07 quiz dhcpd: DHCPREQUEST for 204.255.236.215 from 00:00:00:00:00:00 via hme0 Jun 2 11:28:07 quiz dhcpd: DHCPACK on 204.255.236.215 to 00:00:00:00:00:00 via hme0 Jun 2 11:28:07 quiz dhcpd: DHCPREQUEST for 204.255.236.215 from 00:00:00:00:00:00 via hme0 Jun 2 11:28:07 quiz dhcpd: DHCPACK on 204.255.236.215 to 00:00:00:00:00:00 via hme0 Jun 2 11:28:07 quiz dhcpd: DHCPREQUEST for 204.255.236.215 from 00:00:00:00:00:00 via hme0 Jun 2 11:28:07 quiz dhcpd: DHCPACK on 204.255.236.215 to 00:00:00:00:00:00 via hme0 Jun 2 11:28:10 quiz dhcpd: DHCPRELEASE of 204.255.236.215 from 00:c0:49:10:e3:16 via hme0 (found) As you can see...it tries several times to get the lease renewed, and gets the correct IP address added this time, and for the first renewal request, it has the correct MAC address. Subsequent requests have a bogus MAC address from what I can tell. I'm not sure why the original renewal request fails, but since it retries it several times, it apparently isn't seeing something correctly. Again, as I mentioned during the beta...I'm not extremely well versed in DHCP at this point, so there may be more information that I can get out of the dhcp server that might help...let me know and I'll see what I can do. -- Jeff McAdams Email: jeffm@iglou.com Head Network Administrator Voice: (502) 966-3848 IgLou Internet Services (800) 436-4456 - To unsubscribe to usr-tc, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe usr-tc" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message.