Clients not recieving IP's via DHCP

David W. Hankins David_Hankins at isc.org
Thu Feb 8 21:33:22 UTC 2007


Making sure you have all (reasoanble) options listed on the PRL
configured is one good thing to try.

Another good thing is to make sure the SUBNET_MASK option appears
on the client's PRL.  Some clients do not specify it, and some
servers always force it to be delivered (so clients have grown
accustomed to this).  ISC dhcpd 3.0.x does not force it to be
delivered by default, 3.1.x does (at lowest priority).

Finally, make sure the dhcp server is sending the offer to the
IP address 255.255.255.255, and an all-ones ethernet destination
address.

-- 
David W. Hankins	"If you don't do it right the first time,
Software Engineer		you'll just have to do it again."
Internet Systems Consortium, Inc.	-- Jack T. Hankins


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