In article <[email protected]>, Chris Ross <[email protected]> wrote: > > Apologies to the list for asking about an issue with a very old >system. But, I have a router that I've failed to plan an upgrade for >for quite some time, running dhcpd 3.0.3 on NetBSD 5.2.x. > > I reconfigured an internal network last night, and noticed that where >in /var/log/messages I used to see the client "Hostname" value, I am no >longer. I'm seeing the local address of the server/router (Server-ID), >where I was before, but note a lack of client identifier in the log >where I used to see it. An example of an attach this morning: > >Dec 30 06:35:47 server dhcpd: DHCPOFFER on 172.16.12.28 to >aa:bb:cc:dd:ee:ff (RossFamilyiPad) via vlan2 >Dec 30 06:35:48 server dhcpd: DHCPREQUEST for 172.16.12.28 >(172.16.12.30) from aa:bb:cc:dd:ee:ff (RossFamilyiPad) via vlan2 >Dec 30 06:35:48 server dhcpd: DHCPACK on 172.16.12.28 to >aa:bb:cc:dd:ee:ff (RossFamilyiPad) via vlan2 > > I'm now seeing: > >Dec 30 23:33:09 server dhcpd: DHCPOFFER on 172.16.8.61 to >aa:bb:cc:dd:ee:ff via vlan2 >Dec 30 23:33:10 server dhcpd: DHCPREQUEST for 172.16.8.61 (172.16.8.63) >from aa:bb:cc:dd:ee:ff via vlan2 >Dec 30 23:33:10 server dhcpd: DHCPACK on 172.16.8.61 to >aa:bb:cc:dd:ee:ff via vlan2 > > I assigned fixed-addresses to a number of devices, by hardware >ethernet address, including the aa:bb:cc:dd:ee:ff device shown here. Is >that the reason I'm not longer seeing the client identifier/Hostname >parameter in the logs? Is there any way I can turn that back on? I >don't see in the man pages a way to control/influence what is logged.
Try looking at the traffic: tcpdump -vv -s 1500 -i vlan2 port bootpc or port bootps christos
