"Corbett J. Klempay" wrote:
>
> On Tue, 28 Sep 1999, Fred Frigerio wrote:
>
> > Are u using MS DHCP Server to serve out the IP's? I tried to implement
> > it about 3-4 years ago and it would not follow the RFC so it would only
> > work with Win95 and NT machines It couldn't serve Win3.1/Trumpet clients
> > or anything else. Ended up using a Linux Machine to dish out IP's.
>
> I actually do not know for certain what the company is using to dish out
> its IPs (UNIX vs. NT). I'm just a regular user on the network, and don't
> admin anything. I would say it is very likely that the DHCP server *is*
> NT based, however, given that it seems most everything else running the
> network is NT-based. This would be a valid answer, however, except that
> like I said, I had no problems getting an IP by manually running dhcpcd
> when I was running Red Hat 6.0. (so in other words, the only thing that
> has changed from when it used to work until now is that I'm now running
> Mandrake 6.1)
I don't know if MandrakeSoft included the updated pump in their 6.1
release or not, but I recall seeing 6.0-era messages about the original
pump not working with MS-DHCP. Might want to check for updated
packages.
Oh, and dhcpd has been deprecated by the use of pump for address
reception.
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