I had a similar situation a while back, with a zone I'd set up as a development server exhibiting weird intermittent packet loss issues, running on a corporate intranet. I tore my hair out for a day or so trying to track down what on earth was going on.
It turned out that I'd been given an IP address to use that was also used by their video-conferencing system, so when it was on, all hell broke loose. Your description sounds a bit like that, so I thought I'd mention it. It's a pretty prosaic problem to have, but it might be worth checking - That nothing on the network also has your DHCP server's IP address - That the DHCP server isn't handing out its *own* address for use by clients -Tim On Thu, Mar 12, 2015 at 11:51 PM, John W. Terrell via smartos-discuss < [email protected]> wrote: > Hi folks, I have a zone that I'm setting up that is going to act as my > LAN's DHCP server. However, I'm experiencing very unreliable operation > (using dnsmasq) and I want to rule out the zone itself as the culprit. > I've specified "dhcp_server" and "allow_dhcp_spoofing" in the zone's > config. Should there be anything else I need to do to the zone itself to > make this scenario work correctly? The symptoms I'm seeing are leases > sometimes are handed out, other times not. I've hooked up wireshark and > confirm that when it doesn't work, I don't see DHCP responses (though the > rest of the LAN traffic from the host is fine). Restarting the DHCP > server doesn't seem to help but restarting the zone does...for a while. > > Thoughts? > > -John > > *smartos-discuss* | Archives > <https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/184463/=now> > <https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/184463/24549504-c4bff9d3> | > Modify > <https://www.listbox.com/member/?&;> > Your Subscription <http://www.listbox.com> > -- http://timboudreau.com ------------------------------------------- smartos-discuss Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/184463/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/184463/25769125-55cfbc00 Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=25769125&id_secret=25769125-7688e9fb Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
