Clients not recieving IP's via DHCP

[Tim Philips]

David W. Hankins wrote:

Hi David,

> On Fri, Feb 09, 2007 at 09:18:22PM +1300, Tim Philips wrote:
>> 21:10:56.441805 IP (tos 0x10, ttl  16, id 0, offset 0, flags [none],
>> proto 17, length: 328) 127.0.0.1.bootps > 192.168.2.252.bootpc:
> 			 ^^^^^^^^^
>> BOOTP/DHCP, Reply, length: 300, xid:0x889c873, flags: [none]
>>           Your IP: 192.168.2.252
>>           Server IP: 192.168.2.1
>>           Client Ethernet Address: 00:0d:3a:4e:f4:da
>>           Vendor-rfc1048:
>>             DHCP:OFFER
>>             SID:127.0.0.1
> 		  ^^^^^^^^^
>>             LT:7200
>>             SM:255.255.255.0
>>             DG:192.168.2.1
>>             NS:192.168.2.1
> 
> That doesn't work.
> 
> The client has to unicast their renewals to the DHCP server as
> identified by the SID option.
> 
> Probably the client is smart enough to know this and doesn't bother
> binding.
> 
> Possibly the client also has a firewall applied that keeps out
> martians (IP source address of loopback).
> 
>>>> server-identifier router;
> 
> I'm guessing 'router' resolves to 127.0.0.1 due to /etc/hosts.

You were dead right, I have used an IP address as the server-identifier
now and the clients are picking up their IP address's.

Thanks everyone for your help.

Cheers.

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Thanks
Tim Philips (RHCE)
RND GROUP LIMITED