check_dhcp not working

[Chris Wilson]

Hi Toto,

On Tue, 2006-01-24 at 22:19 +0100, Hugo van der Kooij wrote:
> On Tue, 24 Jan 2006, Toto Capuccino wrote:
>
> > 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!)

Another option might be to run NRPE on a host which IS on the same
subnet as the DHCP server (but not the DHCP server itself) and get
Nagios to run the check_dhcp plugin on that NRPE server.

Cheers, Chris.
-- 
(aidworld) chris wilson | chief engineer (chris at aidworld.org)



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