Panther / dhcp / wireless driver issue

[Sasha Borodin]

Oh yeah, the actual error message on my PowerBook is something to the effect
of "The ip address 192.168.0.whatever is already in use by mac address
00:00:00:00:00:00"

Note the all zero's mac address.  This seems to be a general os x message,
not somehting coming directly out of the IOExperts control panel.

-Sasha

On 11/14/03 11:51 AM, "Sasha Borodin" <sasha at whoissasha.com> wrote:

> Howdy,
> 
> After doing a fresh install of Panther, I get a weird dhcp problem using my
> PowerBook with the IOExperts driver:
> 
> Under certain conditions (see below) when I plug in my wireless card, it
> looks like a dhcp address IS requested (per my Network settings); however,
> each time the dhcp server issues one, it is declined by my Powerbook.  Here
> is an excerpt from my dhcp server's log:
> 
> Nov  3 18:11:05 ra dhcpd: Abandoning IP address 192.168.0.120: declined.
> Nov  3 18:11:18 ra dhcpd: Abandoning IP address 192.168.0.121: declined.
> Nov  3 18:11:23 ra dhcpd: Abandoning IP address 192.168.0.122: declined.
> Nov  3 18:11:36 ra dhcpd: Abandoning IP address 192.168.0.123: declined.
> Nov  3 18:11:48 ra dhcpd: Abandoning IP address 192.168.0.124: declined.
> 
> ...and so on, until I restart my PowerBook, after which everything is fine
> (I get and KEEP an issued address).
> 
> Conditions:
>   -this seems to happen after I've been on another (wired) network (ex. my
> work, with a dhcp LAN), and I come home and plug in my wireless card
> 
> Specifics:
>   - driver version: 1.0
>   - the dhcp server is set to issue a PARTICULAR address based on my
> wireless card's mac address
>   - Bronze powerbook (Lombard)
>   - Skyline wireless card
>   - Graphite Airport base station doing ethernet bridging to my wired
> network with a linux server/router.
> 
> Hypotheses:
>   - it's panther's fault?  But DHCP works fine on a wired network (yes, I
> also have my built-in ethernet's mac address get issued a specific ip)
>   - it's my dhcp server?  But everything worked fine till upgrading to
> Panther; and wired dhcp works.
> 
> So it's gotta be a compatibility issue with Panther's networking and the
> IOExperts driver, right?
> 
> Thank you for any help,
> 
> -Sasha Borodin
> 
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