Re: DHCPD and Windows question

2010-02-18 Thread Bill McGonigle
On 02/15/2010 11:56 PM, Benjamin Scott wrote: My guess is your /etc/hosts file is misconfigured. And plenty of distros will cheerfully misconfigure /etc/hosts for you. For machines with static IP's, I've found the most reliable setup is like: 127.0.0.1 localhost localhost.localdomain

Re: DHCPD and Windows question

2010-02-15 Thread Benjamin Scott
On Sun, Feb 14, 2010 at 12:26 PM, Todd Littlefield t.littlefi...@comcast.net wrote: The server-identifier statement ... So, it needs to be set to the --hostname-- but they really mean --IP-- They really mean your hostname. Your hostname should resolve to an IP address unique to your host.

Re: DHCPD and Windows question

2010-02-14 Thread Todd Littlefield
I finally got some time to sit down with Wireshark and compare the bootp packets between the D-Link and the Linux box... The first thing that jumped out as different was the source address on the DHCP Offer packets. D-Link: 192.168.1.1 Linux: 127.0.0.1 So, something wasn't right. I

Re: DHCPD and Windows question

2010-02-14 Thread Dan Jenkins
On 2/14/2010 12:26 PM, Todd Littlefield wrote: I finally got some time to sit down with Wireshark and compare the bootp packets between the D-Link and the Linux box... The first thing that jumped out as different was the source address on the DHCP Offer packets. D-Link: 192.168.1.1

Re: DHCPD and Windows question

2010-02-04 Thread Bill McGonigle
On 01/29/2010 07:10 PM, Todd Littlefield wrote: The server in question is running CentOS 5.4 with dhcp-3.0.5-21 running. I have a similar server running fine for those kinds of clients. The config looks like: ddns-update-style interim; ignore client-updates; allow booting; allow bootp;

Re: DHCPD and Windows question

2010-01-30 Thread Brian St. Pierre
On Fri, January 29, 2010 7:10 pm, Todd Littlefield wrote: If I disable the daemon on the server and use the one on the router, the Windows boxes are happy...  But that makes me unhappy.  I'm at my wits end trying to get it figured out. Can you get a wireshark capture of (a) the broken request

DHCPD and Windows question

2010-01-29 Thread Todd Littlefield
Hello, I have a stupid question about how to configure the ISC DHCPD to work with Vista/Win7. At home I have XP and Linux systems running. They all will broadcast out to the network to find the server and request and address/lease. The DHCPD server is configured to hand out the same

Re: DHCPD and Windows question

2010-01-29 Thread Ken D'Ambrosio
Hi! After perusing your e-mail, I have a few things to say, and one idea: First, to the best of my knowledge, *no* major OS requires a broadcast response from a DHCP server in response to a request, as per RFC 2131. (It does leave some wiggle room, but this is almost certainly for clients that