On 08/02/2012 06:09 μμ, Camaleón wrote:
On Tue, 07 Feb 2012 21:09:21 +0200, Panayiotis Karabassis wrote:
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Well, the laptop hasn't disconnected yet, but my smartphone doesn't
connect at all. It's stuck at the "receiving IP address" stage.
The DHCP server runs on my desktop so I have complete access to it. The
X3000 is configured as a DHCP relay.
Syslog shows the DHCPDISCOVER request received from the desktop, and
answered with a DHCPOFFER (both via the router). But the packet (or
whatever it is, sorry) never arrives, or if it arrives, is ignored by
the smartphone.
I don't know much about Android (which the cellphone is running) and I
would prefer to leave it alone if possible.
Do you have any ideas about the cause of this problem?
Mmm, I would start by discarding something wrong between your device and
DHCP server. The less players in the game, the better to start finding
the culprit :-)
How to do that? By configuring the smartphone with static network data
(manual IP, gateway, netmask, dns...).
If that solves the issue it means your AP is interferring/filtering
between the DHCP server and your device and this will require additional
debugging.
Thanks. Actually the problem happens on the laptop as well, which is
fortunate because it means:
a) The smartphone is good.
b) I have access to a full GNU/Linux system to troubleshoot.
I tried with the access point removed from the way (the signal
strength is lower but non-zero) and it doesn't solve the problem.
I tried with static IP and it works.
What does this mean? My guess is that:
a) The AP is not the culprit.
b) This is DHCP specific.
Also around the time of the DHCP "dialogues" I see in the server's
logs some "network unreachable" errors from other services (named). I
had written a cron script to reconnect the server on the event of
connectivity loss, which runs every minute. Perhaps it isn't doing its
job.
I know very little about networking, I have been reading on the DHCP
protocol, and one point of interest is that DHCPOFFER packets are
broadcast. So I tried changing the broadcast address of the DHCP
server from 192.168.1.255 to 255.255.255.255. I am waiting to see if
the problem will reappear.
Many thanks.
If that still does not solve the issue and you lose connection very
quickly or can't still connect to the AP at all, then the problem is
located elsewhere, either on the smartphone or/and the AP (low signal
strength, filters, an unexpected incompatibility with specific auth
system...).
Greetings,