DHCP

[Andrew L. Gould]

Is the DHCP server up?

On Tuesday 27 January 2004 02:33 pm, Brian H wrote:
> no, i don't even have admin access to the dhcp server.
>
>
> From: "Andrew L. Gould" <algould at datawok.com>
>
> >To: "Brian H" <b1henning at hotmail.com>, lancelot at at-vantage.com
> >CC: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> >Subject: Re: DHCP
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> >Do you, by chance, have DHCP and dhclient on the same machine?
> >
> >On Tuesday 27 January 2004 02:02 pm, Brian H wrote:
> > > This is the error that I am getting.
> > > "Can't bind to dhcp address: Address already in use"
> > > My /etc/dhcp.conf file is empty.
> > >
> > > How can I ask the dhcp server for another address?
> > > It doesn't apprear the the ip address in dhclient.leases
> > > is in use. I am not sure what the problem is.
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > >
> > > Brian
> > >
> > >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Lance E. Lott [mailto:lancelot at at-vantage.com]
> > > Sent: Tuesday, January 27, 2004 1:52 PM
> > > To: Brian H
> > > Cc: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> > > Subject: RE: DHCP
> > >
> > > At 01:44 PM 1/27/2004, you wrote:
> > > >Currently when I run dhclient on the console I nothing gets written to
> > > >stdout, but the following message gets writen to /var/log/messages.
> > > > Any thoughts ?
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >If you did not get this software from ftp.isc.org, please
> > > >get the latest from ftp.isc.org and install that before requesting
> >
> >help.
> >
> > > >If you did get this software from ftp.isc.org and have not
> > > >yet read the README, please read it before requesting help.
> > > >If you intend to request help from the dhcp-server at isc.org mailing
> >
> >list,
> >
> > > >please read the section on the README about submitting bug reports and
> > > >requests for help.
> > > >
> > > >Please do not under any circumstances send requests for
> > > >help directly to the authors of this software - please
> > > >send them to the appropriate mailing list as described in
> > > >the README file.
> > > >
> > > >exiting.
> > >
> > > It usually means you have a configuration problem with the dhcp.conf
> >
> >file
> >
> > > in /etc
> > >
> > > Look through the log again, and it should tell you (reasonably) what
> > > the problem is.
> > >
> > > or
> > >
> > > Post your dhcp.conf file...
> > >
> > > Lance
>
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