There's a route you need to add to your Linux box for 255.255.255.255
for it to work as a DHCP server to Windows clients.  (Yes, the HOW-TO
even called it screwed up on MS's part.)

/sbin/route add -net 255.255.255.255 netmask 255.255.255.255 dev eth0
(or whatever device is connected to the LAN)

That should have been a part of /etc/rc.d/init.d/dhcpd assuming you
installed it from the 7.2 RPM's.  (I'm reading this off a Mdk7.2 install
right now.)

Deepak Saxena wrote:
> I'm running dhcpd on a mandrake 7.2 box and having some client
> side weirdness.  Basically, if I boot a client machine into
> linux, it gets the IP address just fine.  If I boot into Win98SE,
> it never gets the address. /var/log/messages on the server shows
> that it gets DHCPDISCOVER requests and replies to them with DHCPOFFER
> replies, but the windoews box doesn't seem to get them! :(

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