bneigebauer at attbi.com wrote: > I just installed Redhat 7.1 (only CD's I had at the > time) on another system. I can't get the machine to get > an IP from AT&T's DHCP server. I had this problem with my OpenBSD box for awhile. I looked in the logs and I was getting some messages from dhclient that said something to the effect of bad answer from dhcp server. Turned out that in /etc/dhclient.conf you specify a bunch of request lines, which are things you're looking for like routers and name servers. Then there are some requires lines that specify what the dhcp server needs to give you back for it to be a valid response. I ended up taking everything out of the requires lines because sometimes all I get from AT&T's dhcp server is an IP. In particular for a while they weren't sending the DNS servers. Theirs suck, so I just run my own anyway. I suspect this would be a problem even with a different dhcp client as well. -- Jon Schewe | http://mtu.net/~jpschewe | jpschewe at mtu.net For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord. - Romans 8:38-39