Multiple NICs, partial success, partial weirdness

[Thomas Lange]

>>>>> On Tue, 03 Mar 2009 11:44:35 +0100, Carsten Aulbert <carsten at welcomes-you.com> said:

    > $ grep 'IPADDR' install-200903*/boot.log
    > install-20090302_191531/boot.log:IPADDR='10.20.30.3'
    > install-20090302_192700/boot.log:IPADDR='172.28.20.3'
    > install-20090302_193420/boot.log:IPADDR='172.28.20.3'
    > install-20090302_194559/boot.log:IPADDR='172.28.20.3'
    > install-20090303_094231/boot.log:IPADDR='10.20.30.3'
    > install-20090303_095307/boot.log:IPADDR='172.28.20.3'
    > install-20090303_095806/boot.log:IPADDR='10.20.30.3'
    > install-20090303_103633/boot.log:IPADDR='10.20.30.3'

    > Thomas, could there be a race condition when multiple DHCP servers are
    > available and one replies faster then the other?
Yes.

    > I'm wondering because */dhclient.log only ever shows one reply but never
    > both....
grep DHCPOFFER */dhclient.log

will show you which DHCP server had sent the IP address.
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regards Thomas