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<p>Hi to all</p>
<p>I am facing a problem with the corruption of the dhcp lease file
causing problems to many users.</p>
<p>We use the dhcp server to serve cable modems. We use CASA CMTS
C3200 & C40G<br>
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<p>We got this log from the dhcp server.</p>
<i>Sep 18 04:17:15 dhcp1 dhcpd: /var/lib/dhcp3/dhcpd.leases line
113920: expecting left brace.<br>
Sep 18 04:17:15 dhcp1 dhcpd: uid "\<br>
Sep 18 04:17:15 dhcp1 dhcpd: ^<br>
Sep 18 04:17:15 dhcp1 dhcpd: /var/lib/dhcp3/dhcpd.leases line
113920: possibly corrupt lease file<br>
Sep 18 04:17:15 dhcp1 dhcpd: uid "\377;-E\\\\5;<br>
Sep 18 04:17:15 dhcp1 dhcpd: ^<br>
Sep 18 04:17:15 dhcp1 dhcpd: Corrupt lease file - possible data
loss!<br>
Sep 18 04:17:15 dhcp1 dhcpd: Corrupt lease file - possible data
loss!<br>
Sep 18 04:17:17 dhcp1 dhcpd: Wrote 0 class decls to leases file.<br>
Sep 18 04:17:17 dhcp1 dhcpd: Wrote 0 deleted host decls to leases
file.<br>
Sep 18 04:17:17 dhcp1 dhcpd: Wrote 0 new dynamic host decls to
leases file.<br>
Sep 18 04:17:17 dhcp1 dhcpd: Wrote <b>8771</b> leases to leases
file.<br>
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<br>
</i>2 hours before we had this log :<br>
<i>Sep 18 02:43:35 dhcp1 dhcpd: Wrote 0 class decls to leases file.</i><i><br>
</i><i>Sep 18 02:43:35 dhcp1 dhcpd: Wrote 0 deleted host decls to
leases file.</i><i><br>
</i><i>Sep 18 02:43:35 dhcp1 dhcpd: Wrote 0 new dynamic host decls
to leases file.</i><i><br>
</i><i>Sep 18 02:43:38 dhcp1 dhcpd: Wrote </i><i><b>104799 </b></i><i>leases
to leases file.</i><br>
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<br>
Clearly when the lease file got corrupted it caused the lease to
drop from 104799 leases to <b>8771 </b>which created us a lot of
problem with the customers.<br>
<br>
This problem happened again but in a different dhcp server and it
had the same nature of logs. <br>
We are afraid that this may happen again !<br>
<br>
Is this a bug of this version 3.1.1 and is it solved if so ?<br>
If i have to upgrade are there any stable versions ?<br>
I want to be assure that there are no problem with option 82 (
relay agent ) ?<br>
I can't afford to risk on live implementation .<br>
<br>
Many thanks <br>
<br>
Endrit Hasaj<br>
<br>
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