SUMMARY: Solaris 8 DHCP Server and PC Default Router
2007-12-24 23:54:00
>I have the Solaris 8 native DHCP server set up and running, and it
>happily hands out IP addresses to PC's set up for DHCP. PC's get
>everything they need--IP address, netmask, broadcast--except default
>router. This is reproducible with Win98/NT/2K/XP
>
>Before I go get ISC DHCP, can anyone suggest a fix for this one?
Thanks to:
"Urie, Todd" <TUrie at trueposition.com>
"Doug Otto" <doug.otto at govstor.com>
David Foster <foster at dim.ucsd.edu>
"Todd A. Fiedler" <todd.a.fiedler at mail.sprint.com>
Matthew Stier <Matthew.Stier at fnc.fujitsu.com>
Dave Miner <dave.miner at sun.com>
Everyone suggested checking the Router macro in the dhcptab file, which
was present. Mathhew noted there were in fact *two* Router macros in
my file, and pointed me to Sun Bug Report 4621740, which nailed the
issue. I installed patch 109077-11, and this resolved the problem.
This is a public patch, accessible at http://sunsolve.sun.com, or
via anonymous ftp at ftp://sunsolve.sun.com/pub/patches/, but is not
in the current Recommended patch set for Solaris 8.
Not sure how the duplicate macro got there, as everything was set up
using the command-line tool 'dhcpconfig'. No one hand-edited the
dhcptab. (We were unable to get anything other than a blank window
with the GUI dhcpmgr tool--ain't Java grand?.)
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