On 13 June 2010 00:17, Steve Fosdick sjflists@btinternet.com wrote:
On Sun, 2010-06-06 at 21:59 +0100, Jenny Hopkins wrote:
Further debugging info is on http://www.pastebin.org/313335 if anyone fancied sparing a glance. (Otherwise the drill will have to come out......and my DIY skills are on a par with my hardware skills).
Looking at the log at around Jun 6 20:239:29 shows something weird going on with DHCP. What is supposed to happen is this:
- Client needing IP address sends a DHCPDISCOVER to the broadcast
address.
One or more DHCP servers send DHCPOFFERs.
Client picks one offer and sends back a DHCPREQUEST to take up the
offer.
I wondered how this happened. It used to be that my router did the DHCP offering, and is also the gateway, but I set the server up recently running dnsmasq, setting the config to state that the router was still the gateway, and everything seemed to 'just know'.
- Server sends a DHCPACK confirming the lease.
In the above your machine would be the client. The log only shows outgoing packets but one would assume a DHCPOFFER must have been received for the DHCPREQUEST to be sent.
There was nothing in the logs for the DHCP server, no acknowledgement of the existence of the client at all.
I wonder if the client is associating to your router as its access point or whether there is another one nearby with the same SSID. You could try changing the SSID of your router to something less generic and see if that fixes the problem. You could also try rebooting your wireless access point as it may have simply become confused.
OK, I will try that, although i have no neighbours and live in the middle of a field!
I've draped a cable untidily through the house for now, but would still like to resolve this issue if i can, just so I'm not defeated by it.
Thanks, Steve.
Jenny