Re: DHCP Issues

[Ted Lemon <mellon fugue com>]

On Friday 09 December 2005 07:40, Paul Dugas wrote:
> Is anybody having trouble with NM with Windows DHCP servers?  NM works
> like a champ for me at a few of my sites.  At one customer's site
> however, it's just irritating.  I'm getting no response from the DHCP
> server when using NM.  When I boot over to Windows, it works fine.  If I
> disable NM and just 'ifup eth0', it works fine as well.  I think if I
> pull the plug and put it back about a dozen or more times, it'll
> eventually work.

So the same DHCP client works with ifup and not with NM?   In that case, it 
would be helpful to do a packet trace to see what the two clients are 
sending.   Try this:

tcpdump -n -v -v -s 1500 -i eth??? -x -h udp port 67

eth?? is the name of the network interface on which you want the dump.

If you don't see anything obvious in the dumps, I can take a look at them.   
I'd guess it's a difference in the hostname option, the client identifier, or 
something like that.