Red Hat Networking - Win98 client not obtaining lease from RH9 dhcpd server

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Win98 client not obtaining lease from RH9 dhcpd server

Gray D. McCord

2004-01-23, 7:32 pm

I have a small network using a RH9 system as a gateway / firewall to an
internet connextion. I run dhcpd on the server to supply network info to
the local clients. There are two wireless access points and 3-5 Win2K
clients out on the network, and they all obtain IP addresses from the DHCP
server just fine. Unfortunately, there is 1 Win98 client out there that
will not obtain an address no matter what I do. I have currently had to
configure it with a fixed IP.

Question: Has anyone seen this behavior? Is there a setting in dhcpd.conf
that bothers older clients, like Win98? Any help is appreciated.

Thanks,

Gray