Can anyone think of why a Winbox would stop sending it's hardware
address when it's time to renew its lease? When the machine is first
turned on, it requests an IP correctly. I can see its hardware address
in the log files, and DHCP will hand out an IP, no problem. But later
in the day, sometimes within an hour, but more often than not when the
lease expires and the machine comes back to renew, this is what I see:
dhcpd: DHCPINFORM from 192.168.1.139 via eth1
dhcpd: DHCPACK to 192.168.1.139 (<no client hardware address>) via eth1
dhcpd: DHCPINFORM from 192.168.1.139 via eth1
dhcpd: DHCPACK to 192.168.1.139 (<no client hardware address>) via eth1
dhcpd: DHCPINFORM from 192.168.1.139 via eth1
dhcpd: DHCPACK to 192.168.1.139 (<no client hardware address>) via eth1
...and that happens for a few seconds then it stops. Rebooting the
Winbox will cause it to send its hardware address again, only to stop
when it's time for renewing again.
Here's another that did The Right Thing (TM) to begin with, but then
failed shortly thereafter:
10:47:22 dhcpd: DHCPDISCOVER from 00:08:74:bd:06:b6 via eth1
10:47:23 dhcpd: DHCPOFFER on 192.168.1.117 to 00:08:74:bd:06:b6
(MedusaGorgon) via eth1
10:47:23 dhcpd: Added new forward map from medusa.example.com to
192.168.1.117
10:47:23 dhcpd: added reverse map from 117.1.168.192.in-addr.arpa. to
medusa.example.com
10:47:23 dhcpd: DHCPREQUEST for 192.168.1.117 (192.168.1.1) from
00:08:74:bd:06:b6 (MedusaGorgon) via eth1
10:47:23 dhcpd: DHCPACK on 192.168.1.117 to 00:08:74:bd:06:b6
(MedusaGorgon) via eth1
11:00:30 dhcpd: DHCPINFORM from 192.168.1.117 via eth1
11:00:30 dhcpd: DHCPACK to 192.168.1.117 (<no client hardware address>)
via eth1
11:00:30 dhcpd: DHCPINFORM from 192.168.1.117 via eth1
11:00:30 dhcpd: DHCPACK to 192.168.1.117 (<no client hardware address>)
via eth1
11:00:30 dhcpd: DHCPINFORM from 192.168.1.117 via eth1
11:00:30 dhcpd: DHCPACK to 192.168.1.117 (<no client hardware address>)
via eth1
The machines exhibiting this behavior are all Winblows systems,
Win2K & WinXP (Home and Pro)
So, is this a hardware problem with that machine, or is Winblows
itself acting up?
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W | It's not a bug - it's an undocumented feature.
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