unknown subnet for client address

Simon Hobson dhcp1 at thehobsons.co.uk
Tue Feb 17 09:27:08 UTC 2015


Mehmet Ali Öksüz <Mali.Oksuz at ankara.edu.tr> wrote:

> Feb 17 10:26:15 aurad02 dhcpd: DHCPREQUEST for 194.27.24.18 from 00:1b:78:ef:ae:13 via eth1
> Feb 17 10:26:15 aurad02 dhcpd: DHCPACK on 194.27.24.18 to 00:1b:78:ef:ae:13 via eth1
> Feb 17 10:26:15 aurad02 dhcpd: DHCPREQUEST for 194.27.24.18 from 00:1b:78:ef:ae:13 via eth1: unknown lease 194.27.24.18.
> 
> client wants to IP address, seems dhcp server gives an IP address, but it maybe doesnt write lease file.

The server doesn't actually use the leases file during operations - everything is done from in-memory tables. The lease file is used to ensure persistence of data across service restarts (it's written during operation, read during startup).

Your new error does suggest something is wrong - but I don't know what.



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