Hi Daryl,
There is no switch. I'm trying to build a router and I'm plugging
clients directly into it. It's actually a little fanless thing with 8
ethernet ports, 7 of which I bridge to make the private LAN, and the
other of which dials pppoe. I installed ubuntu server 10.04, followed by
the bridge, and then dnsmasq.
In the meantime, I got another result. With IPFire, I found dhcp very
fast, and it turned out that some of the home made cables around here
can't connect the embedded boards to the little box I'm making the
router out of. But they can connect any PC to my router or the 10 dollar
router, and they can connect any PC or embedded board to the 10 dollar
router, and the proper cables can connect anything to anything. In other
words, the only combination that doesn't work is the home-made cable
connecting the embedded boards to my new router. What's more, it doesn't
matter whether I use a 100Mb or 1Gb socket on the new router. Very
strange. That's all under IPFire, so now I'm reinstalling ubuntu to see
if I get the same result.
Adrian.
On 04/24/2012 10:51 PM, Daryl Richards wrote:
Actually, the "10 dollar domestic router" fix points to the probable
solution. You likely have spanning tree turned on on your usual switch,
which will block all traffic on that port for the first 50 seconds after
a link state change. Either switch to rapid spanning tree, or look into
your switch's version of "portfast"..
On 12-04-23 11:21 PM, Adrian May wrote:
Hi Simon,
In the meantime I installed ClearOS, which uses dnsmasq. Now the PCs
get served fast but my embedded boards are still not getting IPs. If I
plug these embedded boards into my 10 dollar domestic router, they get
an IP instantly. I already tried setting bootp-dynamic and
dhcp-broadcast in the config. If I grep everything under /var/log for
dnsmasq, there's no evidence that requests were even received from
these boards. So I still suspect the networking layer.
As for the boards themselves, I'm not entirely sure what they do.
They've got some kind of embedded linux. One boots into yamon where I
can only say "net init", the other into something of its own invention
where I start udhcpc.
I tried no-ping but it had no effect. I can't get my brain around your
tag system. I've just been writing things like bootp-dynamic with no
tags right in the main config file, or in the case of ClearOS, in the
dhcp config file which is referenced from the main config file. Could
it be that these settings have no effect unless I attach some tags, or
put them inside a subnet declaration?
Adrian.
On 04/23/2012 08:01 PM, Simon Kelley wrote:
On 23/04/12 12:02, Adrian May wrote:
Hi all,
I get the same result with dnsmasq, dhcp3-server and isc, namely, that
the client has to send several DHCPDISCOVER packets before the server
finally responds after about 30 seconds. This is breaking a couple of
embedded platforms because they aren't that patient, and I have no way
of configuring that.
Why don't DHCP servers just respond to the first DHCPDISCOVER?
Especially when I made them authoritative?#
Servers allocate an address and then ping it for a few seconds just
to be sure it's not in use. That's the main delay. In dnsmasq
--no-ping will stop this behaviour. Also the client is entitled to
wait around collecting answers from more than one server before
deciding which one to use; they rarely do this and it doesn't sound
like yours are.
I think I might have seen in the logs that the dhcp processes aren't
even getting the earlier packets, even though the machine is. It's
as if
they get discarded by the networking layer. This is a ubuntu server
10.04 machine.
Firewall rules can affect things, but the result is rarely
intermittent. Is your network heavily loaded and dropping packets?
Cheers,
Simon.
Any ideas?
Adrian.
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