Brian,



>It could be that the machine is slow.  You might consider running your
>dhcpd with verbose debugging, just to make sure that the VAX is talking
>with it.

I was watching the "messages" log, which is where DHCP requests are logged 
- no such request.

>  Another point brought up by someone is the difficulty which
>occasionally arises from ethernet switches not properly forwarding
>BOOTP, DHCP, or RARP requests to all the ports.

Good idea - I just have a simple hub,though for all of those machines. 
Something to keep in mind, though.

>You might go ahead an set a static arp entry on the system running the
>DHCP server that contains the VAX'es HW ethernet address.

I'm pretty sure I got the dhcpd.conf entry correct, I cross-checked it with 
what I set up at the office and they both "agree". Static ARP may be the 
next step...

Brian - thanks for the tips. I'm starting to get a much clearer picture of 
how this stuff works......


         - Matt






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