How can I setup very detailled log for DHCPD ?

Sébastien CRAMATTE s.cramatte at wanadoo.fr
Fri Jun 9 17:46:43 UTC 2006


Glenn Satchell a écrit :
>> Date: Fri, 09 Jun 2006 16:18:12 +0200
>> From: Sébastien CRAMATTE <s.cramatte at wanadoo.fr>
>> To: dhcp-users at isc.org
>> Subject: How can I setup very detailled log for DHCPD ?
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> How can I setup very detailled log for DHCPD ? Maybe I need to recompile 
>> it ?
>> I'm currently working on Freevps project that allow to install DHCP 
>> server inside Virtual Private Server.
>>
>> Sometimes in DHCP log appear  this error
>>
>> Jun 5 14:44:59 dhcp-modems dhcpd: DHCPACK on xx.xx.xx.xx to 
>> 00:00:00:00:00:00 via eth43
>> Jun 5 14:46:59 dhcp-modems dhcpd: receive_packet failed on eth43: 
>> Network is down
>>
>> So we believe that this is due to VPS Mac Address problem. Free vps 
>> generate a new random Mac Address on each VPS start.
>> So if dhcp relay or dhcp clients send data to the old Mac Address. I 
>> will try to force static Mac Addresss in each VPS  that use DHCPD.
>>
>> We could test it like ut it should be far better to have very detailled 
>> log  to understand all.
>>
>> When I compile the DHCPD 3.0.4 ./configure script seems that doesn't 
>> allow to add debug informations.
>>
>>
>> Thanks for your help
>>
>>
>>     
> Hi Sébastien
>
> Have a look at includes/site.h - there are lots of variables there that
> control various debugging capabilites.
>
> regards,
> -glenn
>
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Hello Glenn

This exactly what I require ;)
Thank you very much

regards

Sébastien


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