Re: Urgent: Query on dhclient in handling IP conflict

2009-12-26 Thread sathya sai
Hi All, I COULD FIX this problem with the following solution, I could distinguish the IP conflict in the network by using following command in dhclient-script. We need to install “arping” debian package for this. *arping -d -I eth0 -c 3 {IP address got from DHCP server} >/dev/null; echo $?* *T

Re: Urgent: Query on dhclient in handling IP conflict

2009-12-22 Thread Stan Hoeppner
sathya sai put forth on 12/22/2009 3:17 AM: > Hi Stan, > > I have already thought about this. But the problem here is, we dont have > a control over neither over our DHCP server nor the system which > statically configures the IP address in our subnet. I hope that, this > true even with the real

Re: Urgent: Query on dhclient in handling IP conflict

2009-12-22 Thread sathya sai
Hi Stan, I have already thought about this. But the problem here is, we dont have a control over neither over our DHCP server nor the system which statically configures the IP address in our subnet. I hope that, this true even with the real time deployment scenario. So, to overcome I will that it

Re: Urgent: Query on dhclient in handling IP conflict

2009-12-22 Thread Stan Hoeppner
sathya sai put forth on 12/22/2009 12:26 AM: > *I could also see that, our debian dhclient presently DOES NOT HAVE AN > OPTION TO IMPLICITLY SUPPORT THIS.* > > But as per RFC 2131, the client should perform a final check to detect > the IP conflict and send DHCPDECLINE message. Please find the

Urgent: Query on dhclient in handling IP conflict

2009-12-21 Thread sathya sai
Hi All, This is Sathya, a debian etch user who uses dhclient package to configure the IP address. Firstly, I would like to give my heartily thanks to you all for your great dedicated contribution towards this package. As I am newbie to this mailing list, I am not aware on where to post this quer

Urgent: Query on dhclient in handling IP conflict

2009-12-21 Thread sathya sai
Hi All, This is Sathya, a debian etch user who uses dhclient package to configure the IP address. Firstly, I would like to give my heartily thanks to you all for your great dedicated contribution towards this package. As I am newbie to this mailing list, I am not aware on where to post this query