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Old 01-16-2008, 09:57 AM
John Howells
 
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Default Re: DHCP Based Network Boot Failure



dennis.metzger@gmail.com wrote:
>
> Server: Sun-Fire V210 Running 5.9
>
> Client: UltraAX-i2
>
> I're using DHCP on the Sun-Fire V210 server.
>
> I've set the DHCP Server debug level to Verbose, yet we see nothing in
> syslog
>
> Following is the output from snoop during a boot attempt:


The DISCOVER shows:

> ETHER: ----- Ether Header -----
> ETHER:
> ETHER: Packet 1 arrived at 11:58:26.05


The OFFER shows:

> ETHER: ----- Ether Header -----
> ETHER:
> ETHER: Packet 2 arrived at 11:58:27.11


The REQUEST shows:

> ETHER: ----- Ether Header -----
> ETHER:
> ETHER: Packet 3 arrived at 11:58:42.76


In other words, it seems that the client has taken 15 seconds before
responding to the OFFER, and assuming the default of 10 seconds for
OFFER_CACHE_TIMEOUT from the /etc/inet/dhcpsvc.conf file applies ...
Bye-Bye client!

John Howells
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