DHCP don't acknowledges more than 80 users??

[Simon Hobson]

Hochreiter wrote:

>>Well, let's see...
>>
>>
>>- no logs
>>- no configuration
>>- no lease database
>>...
>>

>Sorry - I didn't include more information, because the same 
>configuration was working before
>switching to Cent OS 5.2 so I do not expect that it is wrong - I 
>thought somebody can give me
>a hint like "check the ulimits for this or for that ..." - Sorry my 
>fault here are the informations:
>
>System:
>Cent OS 5.2, ISC Dhcpd 3.0.5 with paranoia and ldap patch. Started with:
>  /usr/sbin/dhcpd -f /etc/dhcpd.conf -chroot /var/lib/dhcp/ -lf 
>/db/dhcpd.leases -user dhcpd -group nobody bond0
>
>Configuration:
>[root at xdaten ~]# cat /etc/dhcpd.conf
>ddns-update-style none;
>authoritative;
>ignore declines;
>ldap-server "xdaten";
>ldap-dhcp-server-cn "xdaten";
>ldap-port 389;
>ldap-username "uid=Admin,ou=Users,dc=base,dc=at";
>ldap-password "XXXXXXX";
>ldap-base-dn "ou=DHCP,dc=base,dc=at";
>ldap-method dynamic;
>ldap-debug-file "/var/log/dhcp-ldap.log";
>failover peer "dhcp-failover" {
>  # secondary;
>   primary;
>   address 10.0.0.2;
>   port 648;
>   peer address 10.0.0.1;
>   peer port 647;
>   max-response-delay 30;
>   max-unacked-updates 10;
>   load balance max seconds 3;
>   mclt 1800;
>   split 128;
>}
>

And the rest of it ? There's no subnet declaration there !

>Dec  3 08:05:11 xdaten dhcpd: DHCPDISCOVER from 08:bb:cc:04:a3:9d 
>(XT-MICRO-04A39D) via 10.1.0.253: peer holds all free leases
>Dec  3 08:05:12 xdaten dhcpd: DHCPDISCOVER from 08:bb:cc:04:a3:9d 
>(XT-MICRO-04A39D) via 10.1.0.254: peer holds all free leases

Well "peer holds all free leases" is a big hint.

What's the other server logging ? Are the two servers communicating 
properly ? Is the other server handing out leases ?

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