On 2004-01-11, Cameron Kerr <cameron.kerr@paradise.net.nz> wrote:
> Luke <clairst@uiuc.edu> wrote:
>> On 2004-01-10, Luke <clairst@uiuc.edu> wrote:
>
>> Also, when running tcp dump on the dhcp client machine, i see the
>> following:
>>
>> 20:21:28.329957 0.0.0.0.bootpc > 255.255.255.255.bootps:
>> xid:somehexnumber secs:7680 file ""[|bootp] [tos 0x10]
>> tcpdump: pcap_loop: recvfrom: Network is down
>
> Yeah, its just complaining that the interface isn't up, so it can't read
> packets from the network (the one you see is going from the machine).
>

Well, the interface isn't up because it can't get an ip from dhcp,
correct?

I can bring it up using static ip info, but then it can't ping the dhcp
server either...


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