Re: DHCP woes

Sorry, to correct my previous post, in wireless.cgi, if the MAC address is
already in the list [of static devices] the 'add device' icon is greyed out.

Eric

On 19 June 2017 at 20:40, Eric Oberlander <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi
> It's a good few years since I knew this all backwards, but files to look
> at would be
> /var/ipcop/dhcp/settings
> /var/ipcop/dhcp/fixedleases
> /var/run/dnsmasq/dnsmasq.leases
>
> I think the 'add fixed lease' icon should be greyed out if the IP address
> is in the 'fixedlease' file. I'd have to dig through dhcp,cgi to check. Try
> adding and deleting fixed leases and see how the files change, and if the
> correct, or expected, values are saved.
>
> How long are the dynamic leases? Are they 60 minutes, or over a number
> days or longer? When testing I cut it down to 10 minutes so I could watch
> the Requests, Offers and Acks in the system logs, which would also be a
> good place to look.
>
> It goes without saying that green and blue are on different subnets. Are
> they saved correctly in the settings file? Are the static leases within the
> range of dynamic leases? Just guessing now...
>
> Eric
>
>
> On 19 June 2017 at 18:13, Joe Acquisto-j4 <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> >>> On 6/19/2017 at 10:17 AM, Chris Bell <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>> > On Monday 19 Jun 2017 09:12:45 Joe Acquisto-j4 wrote:
>> >> IPCop v2.1.9
>> >>
>> >> I continue to have DHCP oddities.   For instance one device, on GREEN
>> >> segment, was handed out a dynamic address for BLUE.  That has happened
>> to
>> >> several devices.
>> >>
>> >> GREEN and BLUE are on different NIC.   However, after several power
>> cycles
>> >> on the device, now it is being handed out a GREEN address.  One
>> oddness is
>> >> that the "edit" icon is greyed out for that address.
>> >>
>> >> I added that device to the "fixed lease" list yet it continues to hand
>> it
>> >> GREEN address.
>> >
>> > The BIOS in some boxes finds devices in random order, first to reply,
>> and
>> > passes
>> > the list to Linux. I had to sort this while testing a shorewall setup by
>> . . . .
>> > --
>> > Chris Bell
>> > website chrisbell.org.uk
>>
>> This applies to the IPCOP power cycles, correct?  I should have been more
>> specific, it is the client device power cycles.  Sorry.
>>
>> joe a.
>>
>>
>>
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