[ale] Pulling a DHCP address from WinNT

Bao Ha baoh at linuxwizardry.com
Mon Jan 29 15:32:45 EST 2001



No. I am using Debian Woody.  I don't think there is much
differences between Potato (stable) and Woody (testing).

Have you tried tcpdump to monitor what is going on?

Bao

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-ale at ale.org [mailto:owner-ale at ale.org]On Behalf Of Jim
To: ale at ale.org
Popovitch
Sent: Monday, January 29, 2001 3:27 PM
To: ale at ale.org
Subject: RE: [ale] Pulling a DHCP address from WinNT


Hmmm,  I started w/ pump and couldn't get it to work so I switched to
dhcpcd.  Are you using Debian potato?

-Jim P.

--- Bao Ha <baoh at linuxwizardry.com> wrote:
>
> Why don't you use pump instead?  I also have a Xircom card and
> don't seem to have DHCP problem.
>
> Bao
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-ale at ale.org [mailto:owner-ale at ale.org]On Behalf Of Jim
> Popovitch
> Sent: Monday, January 29, 2001 3:20 PM
> To: ale at ale.org
> Subject: [ale] Pulling a DHCP address from WinNT
>
>
> I have trouble pulling a dhcp address from my company's WinNT 4.0
> DHCP
> server.  I am running Debian Potato on laptop.  The Xircom network
> card
> works fine, I can grab an IP from my Linksys router at home.  In
> /var/log/syslog I get these messages:
>
> dhcpcd[7132]: broadcasting DHCP_REQUEST for 192.168.1.21
> dhcpcd[7132]: dns option is missing in DHCP server response.
> Assuming
> x.x.x.x
> dhcpcd[7132]: hostName option is missing in DHCP server response
> dhcpcd[7132]: dhcpInit DHCP_NAK server response received
> last message repeated 3 times
> dhcpcd[7132]: dhcpInit DHCP_NAK server response received
> dhcpcd[7132]: timed out waiting for a valid DHCP server response
>
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