Dear Friends,
I am facing a peculiar problem after I installed Mandrake 9.0 in 3
machines. The problem is, in all the 3 machines, 2 dhcpcd s are
running. Both of them compete with each other to "renew" the lease.
So, IP address changes every now and then (5 minutes to 30 minutes).
Since network is restarted every time the IP address changes, no one
working in those machines can peacefully do their work if they use
telnet, ftp, etc. Also others can't telnet and work in those machines
(disconnected every 5 or so minutes - then they have to find out what
the new IP address is and so on).
But the beauty is when one dhcpcd process succeeds, it gets IP
address A and when the other succeeds, it gets the IP address B. So,
the IP address of such a machine will be one among the 2 at any time.
The IP address alternates between these 2 till the machine is
restarted. When it gets restarted, some time, a third IP address gets
assigned and it alternates between the third IP and one of the old ones
till it happens again.
If I manually kill one of the dhcpcd processes, then there is no
problem. But I am doing this after each and every reboot.
What is the problem ? Why are 2 dhcpcd s started ? Is this a
problem in mandrake 9.0 ? I didn't find such a thing in other
distributions (mandrake, redhat, suse). Or is there a specific reason
for starting of 2 dhcpcd ?
Is there a problem with my dhpc server ? Is it a strict rule that
dhcp server should give only a single IP address for a particular MAC
address ? Here my dhcp server is giving one IP address each for each
of the processes. That is first, one process requests and gets one IP
address. A few seconds later, another process requests from the same
machine. So, the dhcp server has no option but to offer a new address.
Am I right ?
Did anyone else face such problem ? What exactly is the problem
and what is the solution ?
thanks in advance,
Prasanna David
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