Re: [9fans] DHCP weirdness?

[Sam <sah@softcardsystems.com>]

Oddly enough, we're currently experiencing problems
that we only just discovered about 30 minutes ago.
It started with Brantley noting that our clients
were sending dhcp request messages on average about
one every two seconds.  He rebooted to see if it
would go away and now he can't get a terminal.
We replaced dhcpd on April 20 via replica/pull.
I guess we haven't rebooted our terminals since then.

We're using the ``proper'' plan9 setup with diskless
terminals and separate cpu/fs servers.

/sys/log/ipboot contains lines of the form:
	edsac Apr 24 12:42:37 not bootrequest

We replaced dhcpd with an older version, restarted it,
and all seems to be back to normal.  It is indeed
hard to use yesterday without singing. :)

Sam

On Thu, 24 Apr 2003, David Presotto wrote:

> I think rob saw this also.  Could you send me the ip/ipconfig line
> that you're using.  I changed it to fix arg processing and sysname
> defaulting (i.e. setting something useful in /net/ndb's sys= entry)
> but can't see what would have caused things to be completely ignored.
>
> All our systems run at boot.  Perhaps I broke something for systems
> running ipconfig out of termrc.
>