On Sun, 05 Jan 2003 05:38, Jack Coates wrote: > On Sat, 2003-01-04 at 05:36, Mark Weaver wrote: > > Hi List, > > > > Lately I've been seeing a lot of this in my log files: > > > > Jan 3 06:00:54 mdw1982 dhcpd: DHCPREQUEST for 192.168.0.252 from > > 00:08:a1:1d:53:c8 (manloki) via eth0 > > Jan 3 06:00:54 mdw1982 dhcpd: DHCPACK on 192.168.0.252 to > > 00:08:a1:1d:53:c8 (manloki) via eth0 > > Jan 3 06:01:58 mdw1982 dhcpd: client 00:08:a1:1d:53:c8 has duplicate > > leases on 192.168.0.0/24 > > > > Line after line after line of it as a matter of fact. "manloki" is on of > > two workstations. The IP address range that I've got set for DHCP is > > 192.168.0.250 - 192.168.0.252. What could this message be "really" > > trying to tell me? > > One of two possibilities: A, it's a laptop that comes and goes all the > time, or B, it's a non-Linux OS that disagrees about the DHCP > implementation. In either case, the workstation is ending up with > duplicate leases; I'll bet that they're on the same IP address too. I > would try making your range bigger first, and maybe tweak the lease time > to be longer.
third option: You shouldn't have used the name Loki in this workstation name. ;) Wasn't he the Norse god of trickery? "The Mask" with Jim Carey was Loki's mask. -- Michael
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