Hello, I had my home system on a cable modem with AT&T Broadband as a provider for about a year. Everything worked perfectly well, until about a week ago they must have switched the DHCP server. Now my dhclient gets no DHCPOFFERS at all!!!
I also happen to have a working WinNT installation on the same box. Mysteriously, it has no troubles connecting to DHCP server and obtaining a lease. Unfortunately, I don't know how to get more DHCP details from NT. If I get the IP number, the gateway, etc. as obtained by NT and use it to statically configure the newtork under Debian then everything works fine. However, it is hardly a proper way to configure a dynamic host :-( I have been using dhcp-client all this time and I did not change anything when they switched the server. Since it stopped working, I also tried dhcp3-client with no success either. It seems to me that the server either gives out buggy messages (with which NT client copes up), or that the server requires some identification (which NT client possesses). I would be most grateful if someone taught me how to diagnose the problem. For example, how do I find out the exact strings my NT client sends/receives? Trying Debian dhcping produces no response from server, so I favor the latter hypothesis (identification). Please help! Any feedback is greatly appreciated. Alex -- Alexander Roitman Dept. of Neuroscience, Lions Research Building 2001 6th Street SE, Minneapolis, MN 55455 Tel (612) 626-7280 FAX (612) 626-9201 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
