On Thu, Jan 27, 2000 at 10:09:20AM -0600, Phil Brutsche wrote: > A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > > > I am running Potato on an P3.. and have a DHCP server with some > > Windows 95 clients. However, when those Windows 95 boot up they cannot > > get an IP from the DHCP server. (according to the logs the DHCP server > > have already offered the IPs.) When I run "winipcfg" and manually > > refresh the DHCP settings it works most of the times. Sometimes the > > interface refuses to update the IP. There was once a Windows NT DHCP > > server running with no problems (and was replaced by the Debian > > server). Is it possible that I have misconfigured something? > > It's likely that you've misconfigured something, however we need to know > more about how your network is set up: the locations of routers & hubs & > so on. I am not responsible for the network set-up so I cannot tell for sure, but I think everything is connected to a big Ethernet switch.. The network is connected to the external network through a machine (IP: 10.1x.x.1) that acts also as a WWW proxy server. First DNS server, as well as the DHCP server, is on 10.1x.x.2.. I can't remember the exact IPs, but I guess they shouldn't matter..?
> > Are you using ISC's DHCP server software? If you are, it might help to > see a configuration that's been working for me for quite some time: > http://tux.creighton.edu/~pbrutsch/dhcpd.conf. Yes, I am using ISC's DHCP server. My configuration file is similar... equally short. The only differences that I can remember (save from choices of IPs) are: 1) I put the "routers" and "domain-name-servers" lines outside of the subnet bracket 2) I have set up more than 1 DNS server, separated by commas 3) lease times are shorter.. like a few hours. Am I supposed to use lease time that long? > > > Clients uses Intel EEpro* cards, and the server uses a D-Link card > > with the chip from Davicom (using via-rhine modules) > > The ethernet cards shouldn't make a difference. >