Just for the record, one is a Windows ME system and the other is a Windows
98 computer.
Trev.
-----Original Message-----
From: John Powell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2001 2:01 AM
To: Trevor Ouellette; E-Smith Devinfo
Subject: Re: [e-smith-devinfo] DHCP Server Problem??
Trevor,
Is there something different about the 2 new machines (not a common OS,
etc.)?
I can tell you this, the "broken" clients are not "seeing" the responses
from the server. the DHCPOFFER is the server responding, the client is
supposed to accept the offer (and generate a DHCPREQUEST) or reject the
offer (DHCPNAK), but obviously is not.
The issue is likely to be with how the DHCPOFFER is addressed. Some
servers broadcast the DHCPOFFER, some unicast it to the mac address of the
requester. I believe the ISC server is a bit unique and broadcasts it (may
be the other way around, I would need to sniff a connection to figure that
out). I would need to read the RFC for the specifics, but I believe a
client is supposed to accept either method, and it is likely your problem
is your clients on the 2 broken machines are not accepting the method ISC
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