DHCP question

[gaf at blu.org (Jerry Feldman)]

I've seen similar behavior with my old laptop and pcmcia card. There has 
also been a discussion on the SuSE Linux list regarding DHCP.
One possibility is that the DHCP client is being brought up too early, or 
possibly it is timing out before your server responds with an ip address.

BTW: My laptop running SuSE 8.0 comes up successfully at home at work and 
at Northeastern.
"Bill Horne" wrote:
> TWIMC,
> 
> I've just inherited a new pentium, so I decided to put an "everything"
> RedHat box together.
> 
> I set the Ethernet card to dhcp, and the installation went OK: but the
> initialization failed on boot, i.e., the card was not receiving an IP
> assignment from my (RH 7.1) server.
> 
> 1. Manual configuring the card (via ifconfig) went OK, and I could ping the
> server.
>     I could NOT ping anything beyond it.
> 2. DHCP worked OK on the same port, with a Windows 98 box.
>     It received the address I expected, i.e., the highest address in the
> range I'd specified.
>     I did NOT specify a MAC address.
> 3. When I went back to the new RH box, and entered the MAC address of its
>     ethernet card in the server's dhcpd.conf file, dhcp worked OK, and now I
> can ping
>     a host out in the cloud.
> 
> It's working, but I'm very puzzled. Any explanation?
> 
> TIA.
> 
> Bill Horne
> 
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