Re: DHCP giving out wrong subnet IP

Chris Bell <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.security.ipcop.user
Message-ID <18182309.9uinDTJ631@gigl>
On Wednesday 29 Mar 2017 09:55:24 Joe Acquisto-j4 wrote:
> Hmm.   I don't recall giving either and address on BLUE.
> 
> My concern is that they should never have been given an address on the BLUE
> subnet since they are on GREEN.
> >>> On 3/29/2017 at 8:56 AM, dusty <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Could it be that the lease expired while the ipcop server was rebooting,
> > so was not there to hand out the lease and the affected machine went to
> > either its default address or a remembered one?
> > 
> >   - Dusty
> > 
> > On 29/03/2017 13:43, Joe Acquisto-j4 wrote:
> >> IPCop v2.1.9.    Seems to be working fine otherwise.
> >> 
> >> Occasionally a device on my GREEN will get handed an address from my BLUE
> > 
> > network.   This is disconcerting.
> > 
> >> In fact, one of the devices was supposed to have a fixed lease.    In
> >> this
> > 
> > case it happened right after a reboot after applying latest patch Tuesday
> > stuff for Windows 7.   (Yes, it's true I must win from time to time. . .
> > ).
> > A reboot provided the correct IP.   This is a Dell of recent Vintage.
> > 
> >> Prior to this it happened to a different box an older Toshiba
> >> L505-ES5010,
> > 
> > rescued from a scarp pile, mended and now condemned to life as a "beater",
> > (poor thing) while tinkering with different OS installs.   This one was
> > free to accept any address.
> > 
> >> joe a.
> 

Some boxes have a BIOS which finds network interfaces in random order, and 
eth0, eth1, eth2, eth3 could then refer to any of the physical interfaces. 
This can be fixed by doing an if-pre-up check to ensure that each in turn has 
the correct MAC address. See man interfaces.

-- 
Chris Bell
website chrisbell.org.uk

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