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  From: David Lloyd <lloy0076@rebel.net.au>
  To  : Andrew Galdes <galdes@one.net.au>
  Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2001 11:58:32 +0930

Re: DHCP

You obviously sent your e-mail form your Windows machine because Outlook
doesn't run on Linux. You said:

<blockquote>
i have two machines getting their ip address for a linux dhcp server.
why does it work sometimes but not others?

both machines getting their IP addresses are winME.

here is the dhcp.conf

subnet 192.168.0.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 {
        option routers 192.168.0.1;
        option subnet-mask 255.255.255.0;
        option domain-name "galdes";
        option domain-name-servers 192.168.0.1;
        range dynamic-bootp 192.168.0.10 192.168.0.200;
        default-lease-time 21600;
        max-lease-time 43200;
        }    
</blockquote>

What I'd do is:

1) man dhcpd
 - start it using dhcpd -d
 - that option will send its debug to the terminal
 - you could also settle for the stuff in /var/log/messages which will
mean you won't have to bugger around with starting/stopping dhcp

2) bring up the Windows machines
 - and keep on bringing them up until you see a crash