DHCP question

John Summerfield debian at herakles.homelinux.org
Thu Oct 25 23:31:14 UTC 2007


Ashley M. Kirchner wrote:
> 
>    Can anyone think of why a Winbox would stop sending it's hardware 
> address when it's time to renew its lease?  When the machine is first 
> turned on, it requests an IP correctly.  I can see its hardware address 
> in the log files, and DHCP will hand out an IP, no problem.  But later 
> in the day, sometimes within an hour, but more often than not when the 
> lease expires and the machine comes back to renew, this is what I see:
> 
> dhcpd: DHCPINFORM from 192.168.1.139 via eth1

When I saw those messages the first time, google provided the answer. 
read the links in my .sig.

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