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DHCP messages in LAN [closed]

I run a Mac and release/renew my IP with: sudo ipconfig set en0 DHCP In wireshark I get the following with udp.port==67 as filter: Why are the messages sent from my computer broadcasted, but ...
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How to override the network DHCP Server settings to be specific to my own .conf file?

Basically, I have want to test out WPAD(Web Proxy Autodiscovery Protocol ) , PAC. But I would like to do it without touching the Network DHCP server. So, can you suggest a way in which I can achieve ...
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DHCP Requests out of line with lease time, inordinate amount of requests to server

Environment contains an OS X 10.6.8 Server with OS X 10.8.2 clients. DHCP is running on server with a lease time of 1 Day (86400 seconds). The system log is flooded with DHCP REQUEST/ACH messages ...
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Changing DHCPv6 server

I have a DHCPv6 daemon that is answering for requests of some machines and everything is working fine. So I decided to remove this DHCPv6 daemon e start another daemon on another server, but the ...
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wifi connection can provide internet connection simultaneously to more than 300 users [closed]

We have a very large auditorium where more than 500 students want to take an online test. How many access points minimum are needed to sustain wifi connection simultaneously to more than 300 users ...
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Can I run 2 dhcp servers when I use predefined host entries?

I have a very specific setup of servers which netboot off a san. All of them provide identical functionality. There are no other machines in this netblock. Each machine boots from an iscsi image ...
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Assign IP range per switch?

Is it possible to handout IP ranges per switch with the use of one DHCP server? Example, i have 2 Swicthes (A & B). I like to: switch a => 192.168.1.50 - 192.168.1.75 switch b => ...
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Prepend localhost as nameserver then restart DHCP on a virtual host

I'm following this tutorial: http://groups.drupal.org/node/16862 to setup subdomain on my virtual machine. In step IV, I prepended 127.0.0.1 to nameserver as described by the tutorial and sudo ...
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configuring a DHCP server with an 8 port switch (plus port forwarding?) [closed]

My setup is a modem running in bridge mode into to an 8 port switch. I have a router but am interested in trying out a computer as a DHCP server instead. Does the computer acting as a DHCP server have ...
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Why is a computer on my network not resolving correctly?

I am running Windows 2003 Server with Active Directory and DHCP enabled. the machine: laptop1 receives the IP: 10.2.6.134 from the Windows 2003 DHCP Server. the machine name and IP does not show up ...
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No route to host after changing interface to static ip [closed]

I installed a Linux (Ubuntu) server inside my home LAN, initially it's automatically configured to use DHCP interface. I'm connecting to this server from another computer using that server's hostname. ...
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Vyatta: how do I view up fixed DHCP leases settings?

I'd like to know how could I get the MAC-IP DHCP associations. I know that there is show dhcp leases but it only shows information about the active leases.
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Can not authorize DHCP server

I have run into a strange DHCP problem. The thing is the service is running, but the DHCP is not authorized. However, when I try to do it by right clicking, the option to authorize is not there - I ...
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When does ISC dhcpd expire leases

When exactly does ISC dhcpd forget a lease that is not explicitly freed by the client? Context: I am running an installation with many small pools (3 address) and it does not seem to cope well when ...
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Client not getting address from some DHCP server

I'm working on some embedded devices which should be connected to a large network (hundreds of devices) via ethernet and that should be configured using the DHCP protocol. What I'm experiencing is ...
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How could I fix “No subnet declaration for restart (0.0.0.0)”?

I have a DHCP service installed on my distribution, Backtrack 5 R2 (ubuntu 10.04) and it was working fine, but when I began to configure DNS it suddenly stoped working, how can I make it work again?? ...
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Setting up a small DHCP server for small network on windows server 2003

I am trying to set up a DHCP server on a Windows 2003 machine for a small network. I have used this guide[http://www.windowsnetworking.com/articles_tutorials/dhcp_server_windows_2003.html] to setup ...
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dhcpd pool exhaustion - What's the result?

I have a DHCP server that serves leases to several houndred, maybe up to a thousand, different clients on an average day. The pool consists of 242 IPs, and due to the highly dynamic nature of the ...
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Is using wildcards for hostnames in dhcp module of dnsmasq possible?

I want to have all machines with a hostname that starts with foobar- assigned an IP from a specific range with an infinite lease. All other machines should have a volatile IP. I did the following but ...
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Multiple DHCP relay servers after one another?

Is it possible to have multiple dhcp relay servers in line? IOW DHCP client <=> DHCP Relay A <=> DHCP Relay B <=> DHCP server
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addding “CID” and leased address to dhcpd logging

I am running dhcpd version V3.0.5-RedHat on a CentOS based server. This server serves LT2P users terminating on an LNS, and the LNS relays the DHCP requests here. All seems to be working O.K, however ...
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Force the DHCP server to renew the IP address of a client machine, without doing anything in client machine

I would like to know, if there is a way I could force the DHCP server to renew the IP address of a client machine instantly, without me going to the client machine? In fact, imagine, I don't have ...
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Ubuntu Server 12.04 ISC-DHCP-Server not working using standard configuration

I have been trying to configure the isc-dhcp-server package to assign ip addresses to devices connected to my eth1 adapter. Current Configuration interfaces: auto lo iface lo inet loopback auto ...
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What does a DHCP-client consider to be the “best” answer?

We have training rooms where normally Windows XP is installed (via PXE). The "normal" DNS/DHCP infrastructure are Windows-Servers. The training room has its own VLAN (different from the Windows ...
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Temporary DHCP Static Leases [closed]

I want to set up a DHCP server that gives out semi-static leases. Allow me to explain. I want the server to give out static leases (I think these are also referred to as "sticky" leases) to users, ...
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DHCP options “not user configurable”

I'm using dhcp on both client and server on Linux machine I would like to "force" some dhcp options from the dhcp server to the dhcp client Specifically I'd like the client to set into his lease ...
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Determine the IP address of the DHCP server from a client machine

I would like to know what is the best way to get the DHCP server address from a client (linux based), who just got an IP address from the DHCP server? I searched and found this in most of the ...
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DHCPD Offering ip address on wrong subnet

I just recently added a new subnet for our wireless network to our DHCP configuration for the 192.168.254.0 subnet. Most of the time when wireless clients connect it works just fine. However, ...
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DNS for locally defined domians not working in regular intervals

I have been having a strange problem with our locally hosted DNS (bind on ubuntu server). We have a DNS server that hosts several locally defined domains (for example, myserver.localnetwork). ...
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How to run a DHCP service on Windows 7 Home [closed]

I'm trying to setup a DHCP server on Windows 7 Home, tried using a couple of freeware which I found on the Internet but none seemed to work. What I did: On the Windows 7 machine which I install the ...
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DHCPd and DHCPc on different UDP port?

Is it possible to create a run another custom dhcp service on different UDP port. For example port 70 and 71? Therefore all my clients pre-configured to accept this instruction and if fails fall ...
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DHCPD on FreeNAS?

I've got a FreeNAS install I've been using for a while, and wanted to set it up to serve as a network boot server. I downloaded and installed the isc-dhcpd-server, configured the tftp+iscsi+etc ...
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ISC-DHCPD failover, Modifying host definitions via OMAPI

Background: I'm working on replacing my single DHCP server with 2 in a failover configuration. When I do a DHCP request I see the lease is created in both dhcpd.leases files on each server. However, I ...
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Multiple DHCP servers available to virtual networks in VMware - how to set priority?

In a VMware ESXi 4.1 lab environment*, I have a pair of virtual networks configured (10.0.4.x and 10.0.10.x). On both networks is a DHCP server. The problem is that the networks are routable to each ...
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Some clients aren't updating using dhcpd's “ddns-update-style interim” with Windows dns servers

I am using dhcpd 3.0.5 and Windows 2008 R2 for dns. I have "ddns-update-style interim;" set and the Windows server is set to allow unauthenticated updates. Most of the time this works great, but ...
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Using DHCP with Multi-Homed NICs

I am trying to steer away from our current manual addressing system and embrace the decades-old wonder of DHCP. In our domain and even at my home network DHCP is great - I can use address reservations ...
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Host DHCP services on server or firewall/router?

I've been debating with myself about the best place for hosting a LAN's DHCP services. I have the option of either on a sonicwall firewall or a Windows 2008 server. The two things I was looking for ...
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Getting same IP address for cloned Virtual Images

I was trying to install 3 VM and instead of creating them individually (by using the New VM) I actually cloned them. Now after I start the VM (they are running in the bridge mode) all the VM's are ...
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Setup DHCP split scope but second server won't give leases

My work setup had only one Windows 2003 DHCP Server which resides on DC01. I wanted to improve the redundancy for DHCP so I installed DHCP services on another server (DC02) which is also a DC and DNS ...
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What's the difference between REBOUND and RENEW state on DHCP Client?

According to various DHCP description after reaching 50% client will enter RENEW state and will start sending DHCPREQUEST messages to the server in order to renew the lease. It will continue to send ...
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Combine static and dynamic setup in dhcpd.conf

I'm trying to migrate from a situation with static ip addresses and a dhcp server on a router to one new dhcp server. My idea was to add the current static ip addresses as static ip addresses in the ...
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Ranges for Multiple DHCP Server: Better to overlap or separate? wireless vs ethernet clients?

I know there are mixed feelings about running multiple DHCP servers on one LAN, but I'm wondering about the best way to set their ranges. In my case, I have a router which performs DHCP and also my ...
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Stop DHCP client from receiving old IP address on new VLAN

I have one DHCP server running Windows Server 2008 R2. It is configured with one Superscope which contains 5 member scopes. One scope for each one of my subnets. Here is the problem, if I am on VLAN ...
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DHCP IPV6 Environment [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: DHCP IPV6 Environment in DHCPV4 for discover, request we mention the source ip as 0.0.0.0,what it could be the in DHCPv6.Similarly we mention the multicast address as ...
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ISC-DHCP-SERVER - Can different reservations get different options (router, DNS, etc)?

Suppose there's just one Ubuntu / ISC-DHCP (v3) server on the network. I've successfully been able to provide "DHCP reservations" meaning MAC foo gets ip 1.2.3.4, whereas everyone else just gets an ...
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Hyper-V virtual machine unable to get IP address from DHCP server running on same physical box

We have a Windows server 2008 R2 with two network cards running AD, DHCP, DNS and Hyper-V The first nic is setup with a static IP address and DHCP, WDS, and DNS are bound to it. The second nic is ...
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DHCP IPV6 Environment

May I know what are the changes needed in the DHCP message formats if I want to convert into ipv6 environment? Now I am using ipv4 dhcp client and ipv4 dhcp server. But I want to implement this using ...
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Can a DHCP reservation use an IP address in the exclusion range?

Windows Server 2008 R2, running the DHCP service. DHCP Scope: 192.168.1.1 - 192.168.1.254 Exclusions: 192.168.1.1 - 192.168.1.99 If a reservation uses an IP address in the exclusion range (like ...
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Install a dhcp/tftp server on debian

I'm trying to configure a dhcp server on my Debian computer in order to run a tftp server. I have 1 nic which is eth0. I followed several tutorials but none of them worked with me. I installed ...
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How to configure TFTPD32 to ignore non PXE DHCP requests?

I want to give our Windows guy a way of easily PXE booting machines for deployment by plugging his laptop into one of our site networks. I've set up a TFTPD32 configuration which does just that, and ...

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