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On Thu, 10 Feb 2005, Chris Buechler wrote: > On Thu, 10 Feb 2005 10:44:13 -0500, Daniel L. Hunter > <dhunter at techmethods dot com> wrote: > > First, please forgive my ignorance. I'm a programmer, not a network > > guy. And before I get flamed, I did search the archives and didn't find > > anything relevant to my problem. > > > > I'm testing out m0n0wall on a WRAP board. During this testing phase > > there is only one machine on the LAN side while the rest of my network > > (~ 10 machines) is on the WAN side. I have a DSL connection using an > > Efficient 5861 DMT Router. DHCP is enabled on the DSL router. Several > > of the machines on the WAN side are getting their IP from the DSL DHCP > > server. The WAN interface on the m0n0wall is set up as Type=Static. > > The DHCP server on the m0n0wall is not enabled. In other words, I don't > > want m0n0wall to have anything to do with distributing IP addresses. > > M0n0wall's WAN interface has a static IP address as will the machines on > > the LAN side. > > > > The problem I'm having is that when the m0n0wall is connected to the > > network, it seems to take all of the leases from the DSL DHCP server and > > knock the rest of the DHCP enabled machines on the WAN side off the > > network. > > Somebody posted something similar within the past couple months, iirc. > I don't believe any answer was given. Can't say that I've seen it > myself. I believe the other person that reported this was using DHCP > on the WAN, which makes this at least a little more feasible. > > Have you been able to sniff the network to see what's going on? If > you can tcpdump to a file while it's doing this and email me the data, > maybe I can see something in the output. > > Technically this shouldn't be feasible. Even if m0n0wall requested an > IP from DHCP a billion times, the DHCP server should only give it one > since it should always be requested from the same MAC address. Though if it's inappropriately acting as a DHCP *server* on the WAN side it could screw things up. Fred Wright |