I found this interesting. when a dhcp client requests a IP those messages will be logged:
Jan 13 14:04:48 mightymouse dhcpd: DHCPDISCOVER from 00:50:ba:7b:12:58 via eth0 Jan 13 14:04:49 mightymouse dhcpd: DHCPOFFER on 192.168.0.250 to 00:50:ba:7b:12:58 via eth0 Jan 13 14:04:49 mightymouse dhcpd: DHCPDISCOVER from 00:50:ba:7b:12:58 via eth0 Jan 13 14:04:49 mightymouse dhcpd: DHCPOFFER on 192.168.0.250 to 00:50:ba:7b:12:58 via eth0 Jan 13 14:04:49 mightymouse dhcpd: DHCPDISCOVER from 00:50:ba:7b:12:58 via eth0 Jan 13 14:04:49 mightymouse dhcpd: DHCPOFFER on 192.168.0.250 to 00:50:ba:7b:12:58 via eth0 Jan 13 14:04:49 mightymouse dhcpd: DHCPREQUEST for 192.168.0.250 (192.168.0.103) from 00:50:ba:7b:12:58 via eth0 Jan 13 14:04:49 mightymouse dhcpd: DHCPACK on 192.168.0.250 to 00:50:ba:7b:12:58 via eth0 Jan 13 14:04:49 mightymouse dhcpd: DHCPREQUEST for 192.168.0.250 (192.168.0.103) from 00:50:ba:7b:12:58 via eth0 Jan 13 14:04:49 mightymouse dhcpd: DHCPACK on 192.168.0.250 to 00:50:ba:7b:12:58 via eth0 192.168.0.103 is my dhcp server and 192.168.0.250 is the IP assigned to the client however, when i choose to use DHCP when installing i have one message logged: Jan 13 13:04:10 mightymouse dhcpd: DHCPOFFER on 192.168.0.249 to 00:50:ba:7b:12:58 via eth0 does this mean anything? Jeff http://my.yahoo.com.au - My Yahoo! - It's My Yahoo! Get your own! -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
