-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 08 January 2005 18:22, Jason Vas Dias wrote: > On Sat, 2005-01-08 at 13:08, Michal Jaegermann wrote: >>> Okay, maybe there is junk in the leases file, but I go >>> to /var/lib/dhcp/dhcpd.leases and it just has the default comment in >>> it. �I move even that to a new filename so there is no lease file and the >>> behaviour is the same on service restart. > > Apparently you are allocating a new lease on every connection and > > you are not expiring old leases. If you would trace down why this > > happens then maybe this would be a really a subject for > > fedora-test-list. For now move /var/lib/dhcp/dhcpd.leases on your > > dhcpd server to something else, to have a close look later, and try > > to connect again. Michal, you could have read my report more closely. The lease file is empty. (Additionally for the period when it was working, I was seeing the same allocated IP each time. This is another reason why genuine exhaustion of the IP range seemed highly unlikely.) > There was a problem with dhcp-3.0.1-16 in FC4 - the new gcc version > 3.4.3-11 miscompiled dhcpd - the '__attribute__((mode(byte)))' type > that the lease->binding_state has tickles gcc bug #144358 . > See : https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=144250 > I submitted dhcp-3.0.2rc3-1 to FC4, that is compiled with gcc33 and > does not have this problem. > FIX: install dhcp-3.0.2rc3-1 on your dhcp server. > http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/development/i386/Fe >dora/RPMS/dhcp-3.0.2rc3-1.i386.rpm This fixed it 100% immediately. Thanks for the help. - -Andy - -- http://www.addintelligence.co.uk -- we design custom hardware and software for your products -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFB4DeojKeDCxMJCTIRAmxLAJ4sYtLB8fbBNDIgnefzn4A025xLWQCfZyGl wf5+brG4NXVBDBoIS0i5Kw4= =08Dc -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----