Just seeing what others think of this and if anyone else has else come across this before.
Situation:
I have dhcp enabled giving out 11 addresses (192.168.1.10-20)
I also have VPN enabled for 2 connections with an static address of 192.168.1.19 and 192.168.1.20 (see the problem yet!) given by the server software - not me.
The other day another pc joined my network and was given an ip address of 192.168.1.19 by dhcp, that PC was then turned off for the night. The next day at work I connected using VPN and was given in ip address of 192.168.1.19 (the other pc was still switched off). About 30 mins later I get a phone call that the owner of the pc couldn't get on the internet - one quick look around soon saw why.
My vpn connection had an ip of 192.168.1.19
The pc had and ip of 192.168.1.19
The problem was solved by clearing out some the dhcp enteries on the server and telling the pc to get a new ip address.
But I wanted to know why this had happened so I looked in the /etc/e-smith/templates/etc/dhcpd.conf/70PPTPDEntries file and found the following comment:
# We steal the PPTP range from the top of the DHCP range
# Allocate them as static DHCP entries
Now this seems a bit silly to me. So I want to know if any one else has had this problem, and if so what did you do?
Is this a bug, in which case I'll file a report with my findings.
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