[ale] Pulling a DHCP address from WinNT

[Jim Popovitch]

The reason I mentioned the distribution is because the prior distro
(Mandrake 7.0) worked w/ the NT DHCP server.

Thanks to all who replied, I'm setting up tcpdump on a nearby solaris
system so that I can capture the dhcp request traffic.

-Jim P. 

--- "SanMillan, Todd" <tis3 at cdc.gov> wrote:
> looks like your machine is requesting a specific IP (192.168.1.21)
> and the
> NT server is telling you no (that's the DHCP_NAK (Negative
> AKnowledgement)
> server response).  
> 
> I know there was a problem with dhcpd that shipped back with RH 6.0
> (1999?),
> but both pump and dhcpd that ship with RH have worked since then
> getting IPs
> from NT 4.x. I don't use Debian so I can't comment on distribution
> specific
> issues.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bao Ha [mailto:baoh at linuxwizardry.com]
> Sent: Monday, January 29, 2001 3:33 PM
> To: ale at ale.org
> Subject: RE: [ale] Pulling a DHCP address from WinNT
> 
> 
> 
> 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
> 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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