On Mon, Nov 07, 2005 at 10:10:21PM +0000, Dave Ewart wrote: > On Monday, 07.11.2005 at 12:10 -0500, Don Hayward wrote: > > > This is probably more of a Windows question (apologies for any > > offense), but I'm running a Sarge system with dhcp3-server, and maybe > > someone out there has seen this or has an idea. > > > > I have a new Dell Optiplex XP system (Broadcom NetXtreme NIC) I set up > > as a DHCP client. When I enable the LAN interface on it, hundreds of > > lines of the following show up in the server syslog. > > > > Nov 7 09:57:33 isurus dhcpd: DHCPDISCOVER from 00:12:3f:57:e3:f1 > > (vetintern) via eth0 > > Nov 7 09:57:33 isurus dhcpd: DHCPOFFER on 12.174.210.232 to > > 00:12:3f:57:e3:f1 (vetintern) via eth0 > > Nov 7 09:57:34 isurus dhcpd: DHCPREQUEST for 12.174.210.232 (12.174.210.2) > > from 00:12:3f:57:e3:f1 (vetintern) via eth0 > > Nov 7 09:57:34 isurus dhcpd: DHCPACK on 12.174.210.232 to > > 00:12:3f:57:e3:f1 (vetintern) via eth0 > > Nov 7 09:57:34 isurus dhcpd: DHCPDISCOVER from 00:12:3f:57:e3:f1 > > (vetintern) via eth0 > > Nov 7 09:57:34 isurus dhcpd: DHCPOFFER on 12.174.210.232 to > > 00:12:3f:57:e3:f1 (vetintern) via eth0 > > Nov 7 09:57:35 isurus dhcpd: DHCPREQUEST for 12.174.210.232 (12.174.210.2) > > from 00:12:3f:57:e3:f1 (vetintern) via eth0 > > Nov 7 09:57:35 isurus dhcpd: DHCPACK on 12.174.210.232 to > > 00:12:3f:57:e3:f1 (vetintern) via eth0 > > Is it possible that a firewall on the Windows XP box is blocking the > return DHCPACK? >
Probably not. It worked for him when he tried my suggestion of using a fixed address. -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://familiasanchez.net/~roberto
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