Meaning of logmessages

Niall O'Reilly Niall.oReilly at ucd.ie
Tue Sep 27 10:07:00 UTC 2011


On 27 Sep 2011, at 10:49, Tom Schmitt wrote:

> 2011-09-26T09:49:59.491209+02:00 dhcpserver1 23 6 dhcpd: DHCPACK on 144.0.52.96 to 00:18:fe:a5:d7:c4 via eth1
> 
> 2011-09-26T09:49:59.960955+02:00 dhcpserver1 23 6 dhcpd: DHCPACK to 145.32.114.94 (00:0f:fe:5e:6b:94) via eth1

	As I recall, and I believe as is confirmed by a message from
	ISC which won't leap out of my mail archive just now, the
	difference is significant, and as follows.

	The first (with 'on') is a response to DHCPREQUEST;
	the second (with 'to'), to DHCPINFORM.

	As you probably know, REQUEST is used for address acquisition or
	renewal in order to establish or extend the client's connection
	to the network, while INFORM is used to request other (perhaps
	application-specific) configuration parameters.

	IHTH
	Niall O'Reilly




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