DHCPDISCOVER question and problems

[Jay Ridgley]

Folks,

Sorry this got  a trifle long...

I have been trying to get a Western Digital MyBook World Edition 
configured and after several messages to various people and both list 
have gotten to the point that the dhcp3-server is indeed up and running 
and recognized by Firestarter.

However, I am unable to get an IP address assigned or if one has been 
assigned I do not know where to look...

Currently I am getting the following messages in the syslog file:

Jan 18 08:17:02 mateo dhcpd: DHCPDISCOVER from 00:90:a9:6e:27:24 via 
eth1: network 192.168.139/24: no free leases
Jan 18 08:17:20 mateo last message repeated 6 times
Jan 18 08:22:23 mateo dhcpd: DHCPDISCOVER from 00:90:a9:6e:27:24 via 
eth1: network 192.168.139/24: no free leases
Jan 18 08:22:50 mateo last message repeated 9 times

The dhcp3 configuration file has the following content:

# DHCP configuration generated by Firestarter

ddns-update-style interim;
ignore client-updates;

subnet 192.168.139.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 {
          option routers 192.168.139.2;
          option subnet-mask 255.255.255.0;
          option domain-name-servers 24.93.41.128, 24.93.41.127;
          option ip-forwarding off;
}

 From the DHCPDISCOVER the mac address should be the WD MBWE does anyone 
know for certain??

If I include the following lines after the option ip-forwarding off line 
Firestarter and dhcp3-server do not like the config file that results:

	range dynamic-bootp 192.168.0.100 192.168.0.254;
         default-lease-time 21600
         max-lease-time 43200;

The log file contains the following message:

Jan 18 05:00:43 mateo dhcpd: Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Server V3.0.6
Jan 18 05:00:43 mateo dhcpd: Copyright 2004-2007 Internet Systems 
Consortium.
Jan 18 05:00:43 mateo dhcpd: All rights reserved.
Jan 18 05:00:43 mateo dhcpd: For info, please visit 
http://www.isc.org/sw/dhcp/
Jan 18 05:00:43 mateo dhcpd: Address range 192.168.0.100 to 
192.168.0.254 not on net 192.168.139.0/255.255.255.0!

If I eliminate the range line and leave the lines of lease info I still 
get the no free leases message.

I have a four system static ip address network on a hub behind the 
firewall. The WD MBWE is on that same hub, The only thing I need the 
DHCP server is to provide an IP for the MBWE long enough to enable me to 
configure it to use a static IP.


Ideas??? Raw random thoughts???

Cheers,
Jay
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Jay Ridgley
jridgley2 at austin.rr.com
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