[K12OSN] DHCP Conflicts
Edward Holcroft
edward at netday.org.za
Tue Mar 21 17:32:16 UTC 2006
Alan
Did you make sure you adjusted your bootp range in dhcpd.conf to
exclude the fixed addresses that you used?
ed
On 21 Mar 2006, at 7:16 PM, k12ltsp wrote:
> Hi everyone!
>
> We have setup autologins using the KDM at the elementary school,
> and I've
> just discovered that the DHCP server is providing multiple IP's to
> different boxes!
>
> Here's what we did:
>
> In the K-3 classrooms, since students don't have their own accounts
> yet,
> we created accounts specific for each terminal. Then, we setup
> autologin
> for the terminals in the KDMRC file as such:
>
> [X-ws104.ltsp:0-Core]
> AutoLoginEnable=true
> AutoLoginUser=room6b
> NoPassEnable=true
> NoPassUsers=room6b
>
> Next, we made a special entry for the Mac address of the terminal
> into the
> dhcpd file as such:
>
> host ws104 {
> hardware ethernet 00:50:8B:4E:72:1F;
> fixed-address 192.168.0.104;
> }
>
> Then, we restarted dhcpd and at least for a few weeks, we didn't
> notice
> any problems until a few days ago. Now, terminals are freezing up in
> random locations. It appears that the DHCP server provided a
> reserved IP
> address to one of the terminals. Here is the result:
>
> (From IFCONFIG):
> HWaddr: 00:06:25:05:A4:D9
> inet addr: 192.168.0.104
>
> Does anyone know what we are doing wrong and how we can fix this?
>
> Thanks!
> Alan
> Hermon School Department
>
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