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<FONT SIZE="5"><FONT FACE="Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:9pt'>Folks, this is an old thread, but...<BR>
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The RS/6000 is now serving up DHCP as expected. I build a new GCC (5 days to compile) and then DHCP, and the new binary gives out addresses as expected.<BR>
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Thanks!<BR>
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(This is on an old 250...)<BR>
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J<BR>
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On 3/19/08 3:38 AM, "Holger Honert" <holger.honert@signal-iduna.org> wrote:<BR>
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</SPAN></FONT></FONT><BLOCKQUOTE><FONT SIZE="5"><FONT FACE="Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:9pt'>Hi Jeff,<BR>
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telling you my configuration:<BR>
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I also have an experimental net for testing purposes with two RS6000<BR>
machines (failover) and dhcpd version 3.1.0 and bind DDNS 9.4.2.<BR>
The RS6k is a 43 p model 150 with 384 MB RAM and 375 Mhz CPU.<BR>
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I don't see those problems you have mentioned, anyway.<BR>
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Furthermore I have two more RS6k exactly the same hardware with only<BR>
dhcp version 3.0.3 as a failover pair in production environment serving<BR>
more than 5.000 addresses without any probs.<BR>
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If you want more info, you can contact me off-list.<BR>
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Regards<BR>
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Holger<BR>
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Jeff Sumner schrieb:<BR>
> Here's my once/year request:<BR>
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> Anyone running DHCPD on a really slow AIX box experiencing problems? Version<BR>
> 3.1.0 and 3.1.1b1 both do the same thing. I've a teeny network (build for<BR>
> experimentation) and have an old RS/6000 with BIND 9.4.2 (DDNS enabled) on<BR>
> it, sufficient RAM, 10/100MB Ethernet adapter. DHCP builds fine (gcc<BR>
> obtained from IBM- version 4.0.0) and seemingly runs well.<BR>
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> All DHCP requests are recorded in the log, dutifully, as are the offers.<BR>
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> Only once has a device obtained a lease. I almost never see packets coming<BR>
> back into the devices. I've a couple Macs on the wire (with Wireshark) and I<BR>
> get nothing back when trying to force DHCP requests- but the log does say<BR>
> it's trying.<BR>
> I've even tried plugging right into the RS/6000. I've tried the other NIC on<BR>
> the RS/6000, too, finding an old Ethernet transceiver.<BR>
> Once, though, I got a DDNS entry to go, and the laptop did record a 15<BR>
> minute lease, only to NOT be able to refresh it for failure to see the ack.<BR>
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> This device works fine as a DNS server, SSH server/client, or anything else<BR>
> I could ask for. I don't see errors in the log, and netstat show nothing<BR>
> dropped.<BR>
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> Anyone?<BR>
> J<BR>
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