Dhcp server reporting bogus mac id while binding.

shellarchive · 06-18-2009, 01:50 AM

i am using using Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES release 3 (Taroon)
dhcp server ver: dhcp-3.0pl2-6.14
i am trying to bind macid 00-21-6B-A1-C9-4C & 00-15-00-1D-AD-57;
but it give

when i start dhcp service, i get the following error messages.
i am sure macid are absolutely correct.
following the error message i get.

Starting dhcpd: Internet Software Consortium DHCP Server V3.0pl2
Copyright 1995-2003 Internet Software Consortium.
All rights reserved.
For info, please visit http://www.isc.org/products/DHCP
/etc/dhcpd.conf line 2196: Bogus number: 00-21-6B-A1-C9-4C.
hardware ethernet 00-21-6B-A1-C9-4C;
^
Configuration file errors encountered -- exiting

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exiting.

same messages is in output of /var/log/messages.

Please help

rayfordj · 06-18-2009, 08:45 PM

I believe it needs to be colon delimited instead of dash.

example:

Code:

 host example {
                hardware ethernet 0f:1e:2d:3c:4b:5a;
                fixed-address 192.168.354.127;
        }

failing that, please post your dhcpd.conf (or at least the pertinent parts) in code tags in this thread for review.

shellarchive · 06-18-2009, 09:31 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by rayfordj

I believe it needs to be colon delimited instead of dash.

example:

Code:

 host example {
                hardware ethernet 0f:1e:2d:3c:4b:5a;
                fixed-address 192.168.354.127;
        }

failing that, please post your dhcpd.conf (or at least the pertinent parts) in code tags in this thread for review.

----------
dhcpd.conf
----------
subnet 10.57.28.0 netmask 255.255.254.0 {
range 10.57.28.26 10.57.28.254;
option routers 10.57.28.1;
option subnet-mask 255.255.254.0;
option domain-name "india.airtel.itm";
option domain-name-servers 10.56.40.15,10.56.40.16;
option time-offset -18000;
default-lease-time 2160000;
max-lease-time 4320000;
# we want the nameserver to appear at a fixed address

host DDYMK1BS2{
hardware ethernet 00:15:00:1D:AD:57;
fixed-address 10.57.28.101;
}

host th_dth_rahulra{
hardware ethernet 00-21-6B-A1-C9-4C;
fixed-address 10.57.28.100;
}

chrism01 · 06-19-2009, 02:07 AM

Like rayfordj said, use colons ':' not dashes '-'. See http://www.linuxtopia.org/online_boo...ml#config-file