After configuring dhcpd to hand out leases on my local subnet, my powerbook was able to reliably get a lease while a Windows box on the same segment was not. After digging around for solutions, found the solution in the ISC DHCP manual -- Windows boxes need a route added on the Linux side for 255.255.255.255. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Configure dhcpd and ensure that it is handing out leases to non-Windows clients. 2. Note that Windows boxes cannot get a lease 3. Run "/sbin/route add -host 255.255.255.255 dev ethX". 4. Run "ipconfig /renew" on the Windows box 5. Note that the Windows box gets a lease. Rejoice. Actual Results: Windows box got a lease. Expected Results: The init.d control script should take care of adding/deleting the route to whatever device dhcpd is running on.
Setting up routing is done by the net.ethX scripts. I serve about 2000 windows machines with dhcp addresses and I've never had to do this. Do you have a default gateway defined in /etc/conf.d/net? jimbo root # route Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface XXX.XXX.XXX.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth1 loopback localhost 255.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 lo default XXX-gw.XXXX.XXX 0.0.0.0 UG 1 0 0 eth1 With this default setup, everything works fine.
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