Re: MacOS X ignores DHCPOFFER

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Chris Greenman wrote:

>Hello,  I have a Slackware 8.1 machine running isc-dhcpd-V3.0pl1 and 
>am having problems getting my ibook to accept a dhcp offer.

There are two main reasons this could be happening :

1) the client is receiving the reply but ignoring it
2) The reply is not getting to the client

I've seen the first a few times with OS8.x clients, but not with OS X 
(but then I only have two OS X clients on the network and they're 
both mine). The solution in these cases has been to change the IP 
settings to 'manually addressed' and back to DHCP - I guess the DHCP 
client must have got itself confused.

Now to the second, do you have any other devices using the airport ? 
Do they get addresses ? Does your iBook get an address if you connect 
it to the ethernet network ? If you give it an address manually, does 
it work through the airport ?

Just a few ideas.

Simon

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