[Gllug] DHCP weirdness

[Stig Brautaset]

* Rev Simon Rumble <simon at rumble.net> spake thus:
> I'm trying to get a sane OS installed here at work on my Win2k (ugh)
> machine.  I'm running under a beta of VMWare (beta 3 build 1364)
> running Debian.  My /etc/network/interfaces has the usual:
> iface eth0 inet dhcp
> 
> However it never manages to get a lease.  The servers are, of course,
> NT/Win2k but surely MS haven't embraced and exploded DHCP?

It wouldn't surprise me. 

> I've done the usual test.  Last night when most people had left I
> picked an IP at random from the range and it worked just fine and
> dandy.  However I don't want to stomp on someone's work and raise the
> ire of the sysadmins.  They're cool guys and don't have a problem with
> me running Linux but I imagine that could change if I steal someone's
> IP :)  They claim their DHCP servers aren't tied to MAC address or
> anything so I don't see what the problem is.

I had the exact same problem while bringing my laptop in to the library
in uni. I ended up shutting down one of the machines, labeling it "out
of order" so that people would not turn it on, and using it's ip. I had
to do a fair bit of trial and error to get everything right (subnet /
broadcast and the like) though I guess this is not a problem for you. 

Regards,
Stig

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