I've heard reports that Microsoft's dhcp server doesn't work well with the ISC DHCP clients (which are the standard). Now I know that there's no way that Microsoft would ever intentionally break any of their products so they don't work with non-MS software (yeah right!)... Is winona state using MS DHCP server or the ISP server? Adam Maloney Systems Administrator Sihope Communications On Thu, 21 Sep 2000, Cook, Justin S. wrote: > Hey, > > I'm having a small problem. My school(Winona State) is running their network > with DHCP. Now, I log on to my linux laptop, do a good ole 'dhcpcd -d &' and > eth0 comes up, i'm happy, until i find there is not inet address set. So i > look in the logs and dhcpcd says its timing out waiting for server > replys...i find this odd...so i set the old rfc compliancy flag, and do a > number of other flags, etc...nothing. Network card is good. there's a link, > just no net configs coming in. Under windows I'm set to use dhcp, and it > works fine...i see the ip of my dhcp server, and i have 2 WINS servers set > and all that jazz, but i'm not exactly sure what the problem is, other then > a badly configured dhcp server...any thoughts/ideas/solutions? Thanks. > > PS: yes ive used dhcpcd under linux before, and yes it worked then, ive > updated the files, even reinstalled...no good. > > --justin > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: tclug-list-unsubscribe at mn-linux.org > For additional commands, e-mail: tclug-list-help at mn-linux.org > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: tclug-list-unsubscribe at mn-linux.org For additional commands, e-mail: tclug-list-help at mn-linux.org