check_dhcp not working

[Hugo van der Kooij]

On Tue, 24 Jan 2006, Toto Capuccino wrote:

> When i write a remote server i mean a server that is not the nagios server.
> When i say that it is on the same subnet i made certainly a mistake as
> actually the nagios server get an address 10.1.1.13 and the dhcp server i am
> trying to ping is 10.2.1.1. I think that the packets are sent through a
> cisco switch/router that routes the packets from net 10.1.0.0 to 10.2.0.0 so
> that must be the reason of my problem. If dhcp works with broadcasting
> messages, the switch is not relaying those dhcp packets. I am right ? Is
> there's a way to bypass that ?

There is no way to bypass that. Activate the dhcp helper on the Cisco
router. (See the IOS manuals for that!)

Or stick with just checking the proper port with the check_tcp plugin and
forget about checking leases.

Hugo.

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