John Howells wrote:
>
> 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!
>

That could be, though the trace also shows it falling back and retrying,
and in that case (packets 8 & 9) the gap is only 7 seconds and the
behavior is the same.

More likely is that you're running into an offer problem which isn't
shown directly by this snoop trace, but known; it's CR 6220012 and for
Solaris 9 SPARC you should try patch 112837-09.

Dave