[plug] dhcp log

[Richard Meyer]

On Fri, 2005-07-08 at 14:40 +0800, Russell Steicke wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 08, 2005 at 02:24:34PM +0800, Richard Meyer wrote:
> > On Fri, 2005-07-08 at 13:58 +0800, Daniel Pearson wrote:
> > > Try port 67
> > 
> > That's BOOTPS according to my /etc/services - DHCP shows up as 546 & 547
> > 
> > dhcpv6-client   546/tcp    # DHCPv6 Client
> > dhcpv6-client   546/udp    # DHCPv6 Client
> > dhcpv6-server   547/tcp    # DHCPv6 Server
> > dhcpv6-server   547/udp    # DHCPv6 Server
> > 
> > &
> > 
> > dhcp-failover   647/tcp    # DHCP Failover
> > dhcp-failover   647/udp    # DHCP Failover
> > 
> > &
> > 
> > dhcp-failover2  847/tcp    # dhcp-failover 2
> > dhcp-failover2  847/udp    # dhcp-failover 2
> > 
> > So if it is from your server, try opening port 547.
> 
> No, port 67 (bootp server) is used by dhcp servers, and the client
> should be connecting using 68 (bootp client) as source port.  dhcp is
> an extension of bootp.
> 
> dhcpv6 seems to be for ipv6 only.

Well, learn something new every day. I saw the v6, but supposed it was
only for the DHCP version - since I don't have DHCP installed, I didn't
bother doing an rpm-qa and looking for it.

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Richard Meyer <meyerri at westnet.com.au>
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