* Richard Rauch <rauch@rice.edu> [1136 03:36]:
> In reply to Rasputin:

> (Sorry for not immediately responding.  You deleted my name from the
> To:/Cc: list and so I never saw the reply in my mailbox.  And due to my
> present networking difficulties, I'm on a text console on my home gateway.

Ah... sorry!

> Anyway, I don't know why you think my ISP would firewall-block DHCP,
> especially when *they* were the ones telling me to use DHCP.

No, no - I meant, *your* machine may have been running a firewall, not
the ISP!

> I ran a tcpdump of part of a dhclient session.  (I started tcpdump, then
> ran dhclient; after a couple of ~10-second delays, I killed dhclient.)
> Here's the output:
> 
>  /~~~ dhclient -=> tcpdump
> 
> 20:07:55.042762 0.0.0.0.bootpc > 255.255.255.255.bootps:  xid:0xc456bb39 [|bootp] [tos 0x10]
> 20:08:03.010606 0.0.0.0.bootpc > 255.255.255.255.bootps:  xid:0xc456bb39 secs:8 [|bootp] [tos 0x10]
> 20:08:18.010746 0.0.0.0.bootpc > 255.255.255.255.bootps:  xid:0xc456bb39 secs:23 [|bootp] [tos 0x10]

Right, that's your machine asking for an IP, and it looks like nothings coming back.

I think the network addressing is bunk though - see my other repky.
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