> Sorry, I know nearly nothing about networking. What is "FC1 DHCP"? Fedora Core 1 DHCP Client. > ============================ > [root@localhost root]# dhclient > Internet Software Consortium DHCP Client V3.0pl1 > Copyright 1995-2001 Internet Software Consortium. > All rights reserved. > For info, please visit http://www.isc.org/products/DHCP > > Listening on LPF/eth0/00:80:c8:3f:c1:7f > Sending on LPF/eth0/00:80:c8:3f:c1:7f > Listening on LPF/lo/ > Sending on LPF/lo/ > Sending on Socket/fallback > DHCPDISCOVER on lo to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 6 > DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 3 > DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 3 > DHCPDISCOVER on lo to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 13 > DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 3 > DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 6 > DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 15 > DHCPDISCOVER on lo to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 21 > DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 20 > DHCPDISCOVER on lo to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 11 > DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 11 > DHCPDISCOVER on lo to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 10 > No DHCPOFFERS received. > No working leases in persistent database - sleeping. > > [root@localhost root]# ifup eth0 > > Determining IP information for eth0... failed. > > [root@localhost root]# ifconfig -a > eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:80:C8:3F:C1:7F > UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 > RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 > TX packets:0 errors:24 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:48 > collisions:0 txqueuelen:100 > RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b) > Interrupt:10 Base address:0x2000 > > lo Link encap:Local Loopback > UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1 > RX packets:2018 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 > TX packets:2018 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 > collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 > RX bytes:140172 (136.8 Kb) TX bytes:140172 (136.8 Kb) > ============================ > Could you give use the configuration of IPTables? # iptables --list -v -n Could you try releasing you ip in Windows 2000 and symilar OS's? Sometimes the DHCP servers don't give out the IP again if they think that there is still a dhcp client that owns the adres, even though you know that the computer rebooted and is running a different OS now. c:\>ipconfig /release Good Luck, Jan Hugo Prins
