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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> Digital Wokan
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