Juniper error messages that says nothing
I wrote in the past that sometimes error messages are completely misleading and not connected to the problem that is blocking changes commit. Here is another example, I’m leaving it here because Google was not helpful on this 😉
I’ve been trying to configure DHCP server on SRX, firmware 12.1X46-D60.4, using the new approach that support both IPv4 and IPv6. DHCP parameters are now defined under access section
user@SRX# show access address-assignment pool LAN
family inet {
   network 192.168.100.0/24;
   range Dynamic {
       low 192.168.100.101;
       high 192.168.100.140;
   }
   dhcp-attributes {
       maximum-lease-time 86400;
       domain-name lan;
       name-server {
           192.168.100.1;
       }
       router {
           192.168.100.1;
       }
   }
   host HOST1 {
       hardware-address d1:51:99:37:4d:79;
       ip-address 192.168.1.2;
   }
   host HOST2 {
       hardware-address 2d:f0:e2:51:74:55;
       ip-address 192.168.1.10;
   }
   host HOST3 {
       hardware-address d1:51:99:37:4d:79;
       ip-address 192.168.1.5;
   }
}
Attempt to commit the change result in error message
user@SRX# commit check error: Check-out failed for General authentication process (/usr/sbin/authd) without details error: configuration check-out failed
Hmm.. yes, so the problem is…. no, that’s not the right guess.
The error message is not really helpful because the problem is that for two static assignments same MAC address was specified. Yes, error message was really helpful in this case….
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