Stephen Kühn wrote: > > I know it's running; already been through that with the IRC guys; yeah, > it's running, restarted heaps of times already. The issue is that the > client machine (a customer's machine) doesn't seem to want to pick up > the IP; I can set it up with static and it's right to go, but when I set > it to DHCP it doesn't suck and IP from the pool...banging head now. > If the client get a 169.xx.xx.xx address, then it can't connect to a dhcp server on the network, which would suggest a) server's not running b) server's unreachable c) ghost in the machine
Since you say a is ok, and c is not likely, then I'd check shorewall for ports 67 and 68? both tcp and udp? A 169.xx.xx.xx is the address it takes when tried to get from dhcp with no result (usually a timeout of a minute when starting network), AND pinged with no response. In the clients /var/log/message, grep for 'claim' /Björn
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