[TriLUG] DHCP not working

Reginald Reed reginald at cisco.com
Mon May 13 13:34:51 EDT 2002


Yeah, I also had the same types of issues with RR and my RedHat based
firewalls during the RR trials.  I didn't have issues with OpenBSD which
lead me to believe that pump had to be the culprit.  Never used pump
again.

--Reggie

> -----Original Message-----
> From: trilug-admin at trilug.org 
> [mailto:trilug-admin at trilug.org] On Behalf Of Steven Blanchard
> Sent: Monday, May 13, 2002 1:26 PM
> To: trilug at trilug.org
> Subject: Re: [TriLUG] DHCP not working
> 
> 
> I am not positive what the reason for your problem is, but i have had 
> some odd issues with roadrunner in the past in dealing with dhcp. 
> Sometimes, you have to unplug the cable modem for it to 
> recgonize a new 
> card, that may even hold true with routers. Other times, rr 
> servers have 
> gone wack because my dhcp client (pump on rhl 7.0 at the 
> time) did not 
> send a windows client identifier, it would give me a lease the first 
> time, but if I ever rebooted, I had to wait until my old 
> lease expired 
> before it would let me renew again, which was normally a week.
> 
> ~Steven Blanchard
> 
> nroskam at rr.nc.com wrote:
> > My network card quit working with DHCP.  I can assign a static IP 
> > address and get Internet access.  I have reinstalled the card and 
> > switched slots.  The behavior happens across Windows ME, 
> Windows 2000, 
> > and Redhat 7.2.  Any ideas on what can cause this.  Other 
> machines can 
> > obtain IP addresses from my linksys router.  Additionally I know 
> > another person who having a similar problem but are trying 
> to connect 
> > to road runner.  They have swapped network cards and still 
> having the 
> > same problem. Sincerely,
> > Rock Roskam
> > 
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