[TriLUG] NT DHCP Server woes

[Christian J Hedemark]

> We have an NT 4.0 Server doing DHCP serving for us.  Due to the Paranoid
> climate, moving that service is NOT an option, believe me I've tried.  The
> problem is that I can't get Linux boxen to use that DHCP server.  All of
them
> time out.  (Pump, DHCPcd)  Is there anything special that one has to do to
> the server to get it to serve properly, or anything that the people who
set
> it up may have done that would cause this problem?  I've asked on M$
related
> lists, and shockingly, they don't seem to care.  Now, Macs, and windows
boxen
> grab the addresses perfectly.

Chris this might not be helpful but I have run dozens of Linux boxen in
primarily M$ environments and they worked fine with MS DHCP (under NT 4.0).
This is also true of the *BSD's.  Every machine has been a fairly stock Red
Hat from v6.1 up through and including 7.2.