A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > On Thu, Jan 27, 2000 at 10:09:20AM -0600, Phil Brutsche wrote: > > A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > > > > > I am running Potato on an P3.. and have a DHCP server with some > > > Windows 95 clients. However, when those Windows 95 boot up they cannot > > > get an IP from the DHCP server. (according to the logs the DHCP server > > > have already offered the IPs.) When I run "winipcfg" and manually > > > refresh the DHCP settings it works most of the times. Sometimes the > > > interface refuses to update the IP. There was once a Windows NT DHCP > > > server running with no problems (and was replaced by the Debian > > > server). Is it possible that I have misconfigured something? > > > > It's likely that you've misconfigured something, however we need to know > > more about how your network is set up: the locations of routers & hubs & > > so on.
> I am not responsible for the network set-up so I cannot tell for sure, > but I think everything is connected to a big Ethernet switch.. The > network is connected to the external network through a machine (IP: > 10.1x.x.1) that acts also as a WWW proxy server. First DNS server, as > well as the DHCP server, is on 10.1x.x.2.. I can't remember the exact > IPs, but I guess they shouldn't matter..? The IPs don't matter. I take it then that there's no router between the DHCP server and the clients? > > > > > Are you using ISC's DHCP server software? If you are, it might help to > > see a configuration that's been working for me for quite some time: > > http://tux.creighton.edu/~pbrutsch/dhcpd.conf. > Yes, I am using ISC's DHCP server. > > My configuration file is similar... equally short. > The only differences that I can remember (save from choices of > IPs) are: > 1) I put the "routers" and "domain-name-servers" lines outside > of the subnet bracket Trivial difference. > 2) I have set up more than 1 DNS server, separated by commas Again a trivial difference. > 3) lease times are shorter.. like a few hours. Am I supposed to > use lease time that long? Not necessarily - lease times are chosen arbitrarily. I chose 1 day because it sounded good :) Sometimes they're set for a reason: here at the University the lease time is 5 days, probably to prevent the computer serving DHCP from being overloaded (there are very easliy over 1000 DHCP clients here). It would be good to double check your config against mine to make sure you don't have a setting that could be messing things up. If that doesn't work... ISC runs several mailing lists for dhcpd/dhclient. They'll be able to help you more there. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Phil Brutsche [EMAIL PROTECTED] "There are two things that are infinite; Human stupidity and the universe. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
