DHCPD madness

I'm running RH 6.2 with DHCPD and I don't have that route and my
Windows box grabs an IP just fine. Is this sothing new to the
package?

- ----- Original Message -----
From: "Digital Wokan" <wokan@home.com>
To: <plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us>
Sent: Tuesday, December 12, 2000 7:47 PM
Subject: Re: DHCPD madness


> 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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From wlindley@wlindley.com" <wlindley@wlindley.com Wed Dec 13 14:42:00 2000
From: wlindley@wlindley.com" <wlindley@wlindley.com (William Lindley)
Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2000 07:42:00 -0700
Subject: DHCP and DNS ... can't we just get along?
Message-ID: <01C064DA.C7D447C0.wlindley@wlindley.com>

Is there a way, when all of us have our Linux boxen at Bandersnatch for
the Stammtisch, for us to somehow make DNS aware of the DHCP-allocated
addresses for each other?

In other words, just because our IP's are from DHCP, isn't there some way
to make DNS read WINS (or something... anything!) so we can 'ping' each
other by name? Or more importantly, connect to each other BY HOST NAME
for multiplayer games?

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