dynamic configuration of wired network interfaces looks quite broken

Michal Jaegermann michal at harddata.com
Mon Jul 12 20:13:23 UTC 2010


On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 02:18:00PM -0400, Richard Ryniker wrote:
> The most simple (and perhaps too obvious) explanation would be your DHCP
> server is not configured to respond to requests from the wired network
> interace, but responds appropriately to requests from the wireless
> network interface.

As I wrote - all interfaces are on the same subnetwork and a DHCP
server is not likely "to know" from what kind of hardware a request
is coming.  Again - no problems with DHCPOFFER on wireless
interfaces.

> It this used to work, perhaps something changed your
> DHCP server's configuration file (or the location of the configuration
> file).

Well, no.  Although it is not very likely that something like that
will change by itself on a router this was one of the first things I
checked.  And no, a router software was NOT updated in the meantime
and non-Fedora clients work like worked before.

> Check to verify whether the log file on the server host shows
> receipt of the wireless network request,

Unfortunately there is not too much of log I can find there.

> From your description, it does not appear likely to be your problem, but
> on more than one occasion I found DHCP servers unexpectedly active on two
> or more of my hosts.

This is not the case here.  At least in this moment.  In any case
this server is marked as "dhcp-authoritative" and you may have more
that one active DHCP server on a network if they are properly
configured.

   Michal


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