DHCP and Windows 7 client

[NeverSimple]

Hello,

I use the Amahi server with 5 DHCP clients; 3 Squeezeboxes, a Windows Vista Laptop and a Windows 7 desktop.

It seems that the W7 client and the DHCP server don't like each other . Only for that client I get the following lines about every 2 minutes 24/7 (the time in between is not constant) in /var/log/messages:

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Sep 25 19:06:36 localhost dhcpd: DHCPINFORM from 192.168.2.100 via eth0 Sep 25 19:06:36 localhost dhcpd: DHCPACK to 192.168.2.100 (00:24:1d:d3:a2:ce) via eth0

As far as I know this is not causing problems, but it seems strange. Does it matter?


Richard

[cpg]

every two minutes??

yeah, the dhcp server posts information in the /var/log/messages, which is a hassle, but it's ok.

u sure it's every two minutes?

did you change the lease time to something ridiculously low?

[NeverSimple]

every two minutes??

yeah, the dhcp server posts information in the /var/log/messages, which is a hassle, but it's ok.

u sure it's every two minutes?

Yes, absolutely sure. Every 2 minutes these 2 lines did appear in the log for at least 5 days and ONLY for the W7 client, not for anything else. I wrote DID, because it has stopped about 3 weeks ago, don't know why. I searched around a bit and found that it had something to to with the client asking for additional info (other than the IP address), ie. a WINS server, the domain name or a web proxy via WPAD. Anyway, to difficult to track down, at least for me, so I just let it go.

did you change the lease time to something ridiculously low?

Nope, it's set at 14400 seconds, default I believe

Richard