On 2 Feb 2001, at 17:40, Ben Barrett wrote:
> My friend just installed debian potato on his box, and everything
> seemed fine (video, soundcard) until we got to networking :((
>
> ifconfig and the routing tables are set up, it seems, but
> damned if we can get dhclient to broadcast requests to anything
> but 255.255.255.255 !!!^%*$#@%
Isn't DHCP supposed to broadcast to 255.255.255.255, looking for
a server? That's what mine does here at home. Can you get a box
with a known working DHCP (Linux, Windows, whatever...) client to
get a lease?
Cheers,
Dennis
>
> help please
> (thanx)
>
> ben
>
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