#490065 dhcp3-server: dhcpd gives lease to mac address ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff

#490065#5
Date:
2008-07-09 15:39:33 UTC
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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 :)

#490065#16
Date:
2026-08-05 17:31:09 UTC
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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/.

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