Topic: Strange DHCP mailfunction (5.6 and U4)

[guestHH]

Hi,

I've installes 5.6and U4 several times with great success. But once in a while a certain installation seems well, but DHCP to the internal network doesn't function. (Tried w98,wxp,mandrake).

Anybody experienced anything strange with DHCP?

TIA

Regards,
guestHH

[Jehu]

I had the same problem about a few months ago.  If you search the forum I think there was somewhat of an answer.  I reinstalled it and it's ok now.
Sorry I could not help.

Regards,

Jehu.

[guestHH]

Thanks Jehu,

Reinstalling is a bit of a problem cause it's in production.

I did searched the list but didn't find anything up to now.

Anybody?

TIA
Regards,
guestHH

[guestHH]

Well it seems the problem is gone, but I don't know exactly why.

Can anybody verify a dhcpd.conf? cause I think there is something wrong with mine.

TIA
Regards,
guestHH

[Jesper Knudsen]

I have had exactly the same problem when I upgraded to 5.6U4 and so did one of my colleagues. I changed my external interface to fixed IP and ran that for one nigth. The next morning when I went back to DHCP I got an IP address. I have absolutely no clue what changed in between. I checked the log and saw that it claimed a DHCP request was sent but timed out. I thought back then that it was the ISP DHCP server that was temp. down.

Rgds,
JEsper

[guestHH]

Thanks Jesper,

I had it several times now, really don't know what causes it. But 'playing' with dhcpd.conf and restarting the deamon and eventually a reboot fixed it.... Sorry for not being able to be specific.

Regards,
guestHH