[Gllug] DHCP weirdness

[Lee Blackwell]

Can you tcpdump and see the broadcast requests going to the DHCP server?
Or indeed, and you see any broadcast traffic (e.g. multicast) at all?

I'd test that the NIC is seeing packets first.

HTH,

Lee

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Lee Blackwell
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On Fri, 21 Sep 2001, Rev Simon Rumble wrote:

>
> 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?
>
> 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.
>
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