- Package:
- src:isc-dhcp
- Source:
- isc-dhcp
- Submitter:
- Tamas Stolmar
- Date:
- 2026-08-05 17:33:33 UTC
- Severity:
- normal
A buggy network card forgot it's mac address, so the XP client asked for a dchp lease with mac address ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff The dhcpd did not notice that the mac address is the broadcat address, and assigned an IP. Luckily the network did not went down. Here are some lines from the log: Jul 9 15:30:26 s-homoktovis dhcpd: DHCPDISCOVER from ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff (ht003) via eth0 Jul 9 15:30:26 s-homoktovis dhcpd: DHCPOFFER on 10.8.48.196 to ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff (ht003) via eth0 Jul 9 15:30:26 s-homoktovis dhcpd: DHCPREQUEST for 10.8.48.196 (10.8.48.254) from ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff (ht003) via eth0 Jul 9 15:30:26 s-homoktovis dhcpd: DHCPACK on 10.8.48.196 to ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff (ht003) via eth0 Powering off the client PC solved the problem :)
Dear submitter, as the package isc-dhcp has just been removed from the Debian archive unstable we hereby close the associated bug reports. We are sorry that we couldn't deal with your issue properly. For details on the removal, please see https://bugs.debian.org/1143544 The version of this package that was in Debian prior to this removal can still be found using https://snapshot.debian.org/. Please note that the changes have been done on the master archive and will not propagate to any mirrors until the next dinstall run at the earliest. This message was generated automatically; if you believe that there is a problem with it please contact the archive administrators by mailing ftpmaster@ftp-master.debian.org. Debian distribution maintenance software pp. Thorsten Alteholz (the ftpmaster behind the curtain)