[lug] dhcpcd lease issue

John Hernandez John.Hernandez at noaa.gov
Tue Aug 20 15:23:48 MDT 2002


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The packet counters seem suspiciously low for an interface that's been
up for the last few hours.  Are you sure it's not flapping?

Chuck Wiechman wrote:
| That is my question the same box (for whatever reason) decides to give up
| its ip address and get a new one. I did not reboot the box, for whatever
| reason it is just does this by itself. There aren't any other machines on
| this lan to cause a duplicate IP, and there are no sub-interfaces on the
| laptop either.
|
| For whatever reason it has managed to keep its ip of .53 for the last
few
| hours. I tried running the /sbin/fuser -v -u -n tcp "68" -n udp "68"
| command and it gave no output.
|
|
| From the laptop:
|
| eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:10:A4:E0:43:DF
|           inet addr:10.1.1.53  Bcast:10.1.1.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
|           UP BROADCAST NOTRAILERS RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
|           RX packets:60 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
|           TX packets:48 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
|           collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
|           RX bytes:8422 (8.2 Kb)  TX bytes:10594 (10.3 Kb)
|           Interrupt:11 Base address:0x4000
|
|
|
|
| On Tue, 20 Aug 2002, John Hernandez wrote:
|
|
|>|>>Aug 20 11:57:00 firewall dhcpd: already acking lease 10.1.1.51
|>|>>Aug 20 11:57:00 firewall dhcpd: Abandoning IP address 10.1.1.51:
|>pinged before offer
|>
|>It looks like the DHCP server is getting flooded with DISCOVER messages
|>from that same MAC address.  Are there subinterfaces on the client that
|>are also requesting DHCP addresses?
|>
|>Could there be boxes on the network that have statically assigned
|>(stolen) addresses out of the DHCP pool?
|>
|>Chuck Wiechman wrote:
|>| The dhcp server (yes the output below came from the serer) is on
the same
|>| net with IP address 10.1.1.1, there is no firewalling on that
interface.
|>|
|>|
|>| On Tue, 20 Aug 2002, D. Stimits wrote:
|>|
|>|
|>|>Chuck Wiechman wrote:
|>|>
|>|>>I recently upgraded my laptop from redhat 7.1 to 7.3. After the
upgrade,
|>|>>the laptop is having issues keeping the same IP address. For some
reason
|>|>>it keeps requesting a new IP, and giving up its old one. I am pretty
|>sure
|>|>>there is nothing wrong with the dhcp server (redhat 7.2 it has been
|>|>>running for months just fine), and it exhibits the same behavior at
|>work
|>|>>with a debian dhcp server.
|>|>>
|>|>>The only difference that I can see is that 7.3 uses dhcpcd instead
|>of the
|>|>>pump client. I don't see any patches for dhcp on redhats page. Is
|>this a
|>|>>know bug? Should I go back to pump?
|>|>
|>|>I just installed dhcp client on my machine for cable modem, RH 7.3. I
|>|>could not get pump to work, but dhcpc worked without any effort.
The one
|>|>thing that initially hurt was having the firewall block
|>|>non-Internet-routable addresses...it turns out that AT&T uses one of
|>|>those to talk via dhcp to users. The output below is from the dhcp
|>|>server (I hope it isn't running on the laptop...it could be trying to
|>|>serve itself), I wonder if "abandoned" can be caused by a blocked port
|>|>or address? Did your upgrade change anything at all to do with
|>firewalling?
|>|>
|>|>D. Stimits, stimits AT attbi.com
|>|>
|>|>
|>|>>
|>|>>dhcpd.leases
|>|>>---------------------------------------------------
|>|>>lease 10.1.1.51 {
|>|>>        starts 2 2002/08/20 17:57:00;
|>|>>        ends 2 2002/08/20 17:57:00;
|>|>>        abandoned;
|>|>>}
|>|>>lease 10.1.1.50 {
|>|>>        starts 2 2002/08/20 01:20:46;
|>|>>        ends 2 2002/08/20 01:20:48;
|>|>>        hardware ethernet 00:10:a4:e0:43:df;
|>|>>        uid 01:00:01:02:79:2d:87;
|>|>>}
|>|>>lease 10.1.1.64 {
|>|>>        starts 2 2002/08/20 01:19:42;
|>|>>        ends 2 2002/08/20 01:19:42;
|>|>>        abandoned;
|>|>>}
|>|>>lease 10.1.1.53 {
|>|>>        starts 2 2002/08/20 17:57:10;
|>|>>        ends 2 2002/08/20 21:57:10;
|>|>>        hardware ethernet 00:10:a4:e0:43:df;
|>|>>        uid 01:00:01:02:79:2d:87;
|>|>>}
|>|>>lease 10.1.1.53 {
|>|>>        starts 2 2002/08/20 17:57:11;
|>|>>        ends 2 2002/08/20 21:57:11;
|>|>>        hardware ethernet 00:10:a4:e0:43:df;
|>|>>        uid 01:00:01:02:79:2d:87;
|>|>>}
|>|>>
|>|>>
|>|>>
|>|>>Aug 20 09:56:59 firewall dhcpd: DHCPDISCOVER from 00:10:a4:e0:43:df
|>via eth0
|>|>>Aug 20 09:57:00 firewall dhcpd: DHCPOFFER on 10.1.1.51 to
|>00:10:a4:e0:43:df via eth0
|>|>>Aug 20 09:57:00 firewall dhcpd: DHCPDISCOVER from 00:10:a4:e0:43:df
|>via eth0
|>|>>Aug 20 09:57:00 firewall dhcpd: DHCPOFFER on 10.1.1.51 to
|>00:10:a4:e0:43:df via eth0
|>|>>Aug 20 09:57:00 firewall dhcpd: DHCPREQUEST for 10.1.1.51 from
|>00:10:a4:e0:43:df via eth0
|>|>>Aug 20 09:57:00 firewall dhcpd: DHCPACK on 10.1.1.51 to
|>00:10:a4:e0:43:df via eth0
|>|>>Aug 20 11:57:00 firewall dhcpd: DHCPDISCOVER from 00:10:a4:e0:43:df
|>via eth0
|>|>>Aug 20 11:57:00 firewall dhcpd: DHCPDISCOVER from 00:10:a4:e0:43:df
|>via eth0
|>|>>Aug 20 11:57:00 firewall dhcpd: already acking lease 10.1.1.51
|>|>>Aug 20 11:57:00 firewall dhcpd: Abandoning IP address 10.1.1.51:
|>pinged before offer
|>|>>Aug 20 11:57:08 firewall dhcpd: DHCPDISCOVER from 00:10:a4:e0:43:df
|>via eth0
|>|>>Aug 20 11:57:09 firewall dhcpd: DHCPOFFER on 10.1.1.52 to
|>00:10:a4:e0:43:df via eth0
|>|>>Aug 20 11:57:09 firewall dhcpd: DHCPDISCOVER from 00:10:a4:e0:43:df
|>via eth0
|>|>>Aug 20 11:57:10 firewall dhcpd: DHCPOFFER on 10.1.1.53 to
|>00:10:a4:e0:43:df via eth0
|>|>>Aug 20 11:57:10 firewall dhcpd: DHCPREQUEST for 10.1.1.53 from
|>00:10:a4:e0:43:df via eth0
|>|>>Aug 20 11:57:10 firewall dhcpd: DHCPACK on 10.1.1.53 to
|>00:10:a4:e0:43:df via eth0
|>|>>Aug 20 11:57:11 firewall dhcpd: DHCPREQUEST for 10.1.1.53 from
|>00:10:a4:e0:43:df via eth0
|>|>>Aug 20 11:57:11 firewall dhcpd: DHCPACK on 10.1.1.53 to
|>00:10:a4:e0:43:df via eth0
|>|>>
|>|>>
|>|>>
|>|>>
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|>~  - John Hernandez - Network Engineer - 303-497-6392 -
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