dhcp server setup: client doesn't accept DHCPOFFER
Jatin K
ssh.fedora at gmail.com
Mon Oct 4 09:45:15 UTC 2010
On Monday 04 October 2010 03:03 PM, Hiisi wrote:
> Dear all!
> I'm trying to set up dhcp-server for my home network. This home server
> has 3 nicks. It's connected to the Internet via eth0 and shares its
> connection to the LAN hosts on eth1 and eth2 interfaces using
> IP-forwarding (masquerade). Currently clients have to enter IP
> manually. I would like it to be set automatically via dhcp. I
> installed dhcp and modified dhcpd.conf as follows:
> $ sudo cat /etc/dhcp/dhcpd.conf
> # dhcpd.conf
>
> ddns-update-style interim;
> ignore client-updates;
>
> # If this DHCP server is the official DHCP server for the local
> # network, the authoritative directive should be uncommented.
> authoritative;
>
> log-facility local7;
>
> subnet 192.168.2.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 {
> range 192.168.2.30 192.168.2.50;
> default-lease-time 86400;
> max-lease-time 86400;
> option routers 192.168.2.20;
> option broadcast-address 192.168.2.255;
> option subnet-mask 255.255.255.0;
> option domain-name-servers 192.168.0.1;
> }
>
> host ubuntu-virtual {
> hardware ethernet 08:00:27:84:b7:23;
> fixed-address 192.168.2.50;
> }
>
Is you ubuntu machine is virtual host ...
check you network configuration in virtual box/vmware or etc....
> Now I'm testing it on ubuntu virtual machine with no success. When
> ubuntu tries to connect to the Internet I see this messages
> in/var/log/messages on the server:
> Oct 4 13:22:50 kello dhcpd: DHCPDISCOVER from 08:00:27:84:b7:23 via eth1
> Oct 4 13:22:50 kello dhcpd: DHCPOFFER on 192.168.2.50 to
> 08:00:27:84:b7:23 via eth1
> Oct 4 13:22:55 kello dhcpd: DHCPDISCOVER from 08:00:27:84:b7:23 via eth1
> Oct 4 13:22:55 kello dhcpd: DHCPOFFER on 192.168.2.50 to
> 08:00:27:84:b7:23 via eth1
>
> As in theory, I'm expecting it to send DHCPREQUEST in response to
> server DHCPOFFER and server to hit back with DHCPACK. Why it doesn't
> work? How can i debug it to find out what's wrong with it?
> TIA
>
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