[wplug] What Does This SYSLOG Entry Mean?

[Robert Dale]

On Tue, 16 Jan 2001 jmh3 at linuxfreak.com wrote:

> > > > Jan 16 09:02:19 6R:c1087015-a.baden1.pa.home.com 0312 400 DHCP SERVER
> > > > Offered        | Offering: 10.0.1.2  To: 003065112234  By: 24.23.99.148
> > > are you running dhcp on your firewall gateway for computers behind the
> > > firewall?
> > 
> > Precisely.  003065112234 is Rick's MAC address.  24.23.99.148 is one of 
> > @Home's DHCP server.
> 
> isn't c1087015-a.baden1.pa.home.com ricks computer (from the log entry)?
> the ipaddress 24.23.99.148 resolves to that domain name. if that is the
> case it would seem that his computer is serving out ip's in the 10.x.x.x
> subnet right?

Right.  I was still looking at the netstat entry.

It does indeed look like he's the one offering IPs.  003065112234 must be
the requester's MAC.  Rick, what does `/sbin/ifconfig | grep HWaddr` give
you?

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Robert Dale