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List:       dhcp-client
Subject:    Re: Unable to get DHCP address assignment
From:       "David W. Hankins" <David_Hankins () isc ! org>
Date:       2006-01-30 23:21:47
Message-ID: 20060130232147.GB19724 () isc ! org
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On Sun, Jan 29, 2006 at 09:20:03AM -0700, Jeff Cold wrote:
> I have SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 9 running inside of VMWare 5.5.1.  A static \
> address assignment for SLES 9 bridged to the network card in the Win XP Pro SP2 \
> host works fine.  However, I cannot get a DHCP address assignment in SLES 9.  The \
> Win XP Pro SP2 host can get a DHCP address assignment fine. 
> I can ping -n the DHCP server x.x.100.83/24 just fine from SLES9.  When I run \
> dhclient from the SLES9 command line, I get many DHCPDISCOVER listings, followed by \
> No DHCPOFFERS, No working leases in persistent database - sleeping. 
> I'd like to use omshell to troubleshoot, but don't know how to go about it.  I've \
> tried ethereal and when filtering for BOOTP on display, there are no packets to \
> show.  I'm using v3.0.3 (latest)

Try listening to packets at the server side.  Did it receive the DISCOVERs?
Did it log an error or did it indicate it sent OFFERs?

-- 
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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