no DHCPREQUEST after DHCPOFFER

[Howard Wang]

Hi Simon

Very appreciate your help.

I think on the dynamic case( Non working version ), the client does not send 
DHCPREQUEST due to the  DHCPOFFER it got does now totally meet the requirement. in this case, the client is etherboot. (rom 5.16), after I have
installed the linux, the linux is able to get ip from the same server and
same config (both dynamic and manual ) using the same ethernet port.

looked like in the manual config case, the mac address of the client has
been sent to etherboot while in the dynamic case, it's not.

my question is then: 
1.is it true ?
2. if it is true, then how do I config the dhcpd server to send MAC
address of the client in the  DHCPOFFER in the dynamic config case ?

regards

howard


AT this point I need to correct something. You talk of "the server is 
able to get the DHCPREQUEST" as though this is something the server 
does. The server is passive in this, if the client sends it, the 
server will get it, if the client doesn't send it, there's nothing 
you can do at the server end to fix this - apart from ...

figure out why the client is not accepting the offer.


Firstly, look carefully at your server config, and see if the options 
send when specifying a fixed address are in any way different to 
those sent when using a dynamic address. You could post your config 
file here and we can take a look.

Next, you could look at the packets on the wire and see what is sent 
out - compare the offer packets for the two cases and see what's 
different. With ethereal installed, 'tethereal -V -f "ether host 
aa:bb:cc:dd:ee:ff and (port 67 or port 68)"' should do it.

The only explanation I can see is that in the two cases, the offer 
packet differ in more than just than IP address and the client is not 
happy with one of them.

Simon