Client does not get address (Dynamic DHCP)
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#2 Client does not get address (Dynamic DHCP)
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2010-01-02
2010-01-02
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Tarifa 035b.
Wireless G-Only, WPA2-Personal, AES.
Today one of the wireless client PC's (Windows XP HE NL SP3) did not get a dynamic IP address, finally resulted in an APIPA address.
This behaviour was also sometimes seen with several DD-WRT versions, can it be related to DNSMasq (not sure if it is also used as DHCP server in Tarifa)?
Getting an address can usually be forced in several ways:
1-reboot PC
2-reboot router
3-"repair" the the network connection
4-re-connect to the wireless network
Options 1 or 3 are the ones used by the family when I'm not around.
Tarifa firmware uses udhcp 0.9.8, this is the updated version of the one in the stock firmware.
DD-wrt uses the same udhcp package with updates, tomato uses the Dnsmasq dhcp server package.
Your idea that the problem has something to do with DNSMasq is interesting, I will keep that in my mind.
To see what happens in the router, you need to enable syslog, this way it is possible to log the problem and solve it.