Ian,
You and Lyle have just contradicted each other - if I understood
correctly.
I do -not- think it is a "host name" issue - as the way the cable
company validates me is via the unique serial number burnt into the
cable modem - not by anything -I- do. I can have any host name (or no
host name at all) if I so choose.
Once I have gotten past the DHCP bottle-neck - I get leases quickly.
However - getting past the bottleneck is the issue. In Windoze I can
run winipcfg - and do release > renew cycles until hell freezes - and
everyone is 100% cast iron happy. It is ONLY when I use the non-M$
operating system that the s**t hits the fan. (and this is true on
several private/corporate networks as well)
Jim
Ian McDermid wrote:
> Jim,
>
> BOOTP is indeed different to DHCP. An easy demo of this is the DHCP
> server with STN. It will not respond to BOOTP requests. As Lyle points
> out, as DHCP is a broadcast it will not pass over a router unless BOOTP
> forwarding is turned on. Microsoft call it DHCH Relay. This works by
> sending the IP address of the relay agent so the DHCP server can work
> out if it has a "scope" or range of addresses setup for the requesting
> subnet.
>
> Another possibility for your problem is the release of of the current
> lease your machine has. Is the host name the same under Linux and
> Windoze. Is this how your DHCP lease is obtained?? You may be getting
> reject packets if the lease has not expired. This is a problem with
> Cisco (The Microsoft of Networking) products. You can get the lease time
> from ipconfig/all (NT) or winipcfg (9X).
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