DHCP

[Andrew L. Gould]

Does the network administrator know you're adding a computer to the network?  
Could it be that DHCP is only working with known MAC addresses?

Andrew Gould

On Wednesday 28 January 2004 08:42 am, Brian H wrote:
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> >"Brian H" <b1henning at hotmail.com> writes:
> > > This is the error that I am getting.
> > > "Can't bind to dhcp address: Address already in use"
> > > My /etc/dhcp.conf file is empty.
> > >
> > > How can I ask the dhcp server for another address?
> > > It doesn't apprear the the ip address in dhclient.leases
> > > is in use. I am not sure what the problem is.
> >
> >I believe that this message means that your DHCP client got assigned
> >an address, but when it pinged that address to make sure no one else
> >was using it, something responded.  You may need the system
> >administrator to figure out who else is camped out on the IP address.
>
> I am able to get on the network with a static address, but the DHCP is not
> working as of yet.
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