[Xen-users] SOLVED: dhcp requests being ignored wit reason "not authoritative"

[Henning Sprang <henning_sprang@xxxxxx>]

Henning Sprang wrote:
> Hi,
> I am trying to get an IP adress, nfs root host and directory information
> for a xen vm on the kernel level at boot time from dhcp.
> When the dhcp requests from the xen VM arrive on my server, my dhcp
> server denies to give them an IP address, it's syslog reads:
> 
> May  4 05:13:21 amalgam dhcpd: DHCPREQUEST for 255.255.255.255 (1.2.3.4)
>>from 00:16:3e:00:00:11 via eth0: ignored (not authoritative).

I didn't have a line saying "authoritative" in the subnet configuration.
Inserting this helped.

I don't understand why the same host with the same MAC got an IP with
dhclient, only not on kernel level, but it works :)
I can finally install my vm's automatically over the network.

Henning

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