I am setting up an RedHat machine to be a mail server, web server and gateway to a bunch of windows machines. I have run into a whall and do not know which way to go. The RH dhcp server is giving leases to XP machines but 98 machines say that the dhcp server is not availabe and simply renew the old lease whic was given by 2000 server which I want to replace with the RH machine.

Any thought as to what would cause a problem with 98 and not xp?

Thanks
Tom

I remember reading somewhere about 98 machines getting their leases differently than NT platforms. The reason was because 98 was not intended to be any kind of networking platform, but the shoe-horned it in with netbios (evil). Make sure that TCP/IP is installed on the 98 machine, because by default it is not even in the network setup window. You have to go in to properties and manually add it.

If that doesn't help, do a google search on setting up Win98....

Are you sure that the dhcp daemon is running on your linux box? Do the following:
ps -A | grep dhcp

You should see something like:
637 ? 00:00:00 dhcpd

This will tell you that it is running. Rereading your post, it looks like it is because you say that it is dishing IP's to XP but not 9x clients. What does your dhcpd.conf file look like? What is the physical layout of your network, ie routers, switches, etc? Are the dhcp server and clients on the same network or are they separated by switches or other devices. I take it that the 2k dhcp server is no longer in service right. You can't have 2 dhcp servers unless you make specific provisions for them.

What you can do is go the the dhcp server, kill the process and run it in the foreground by typing
dhcpd -f -d

This way all errors and messages will be logged in the foreground so you can see the requests and replies in real time. Then you go and fire up a windows 98 machine. It should generate some kind of message to your console. If it does not, there may be something wrong with your setup.

I have a bunch of machines that get their IP's from a redhat server. Most of the machines are tripple booted so they run XP, 98 and Linux. I haven't seen any problems yet. The setup works flawlessly because they are on the same wire. If your machines are not, you will need to run a dhcp relay program. It will forward dhcp requests from distant networks to the dhcpd server. I have no experience setting it up though.

Hope this helps.

sidmark,

I did as you suggested and what is happening is the win98 machines are makind a DGCPREQUEST for their current ip. The nt macines DHCPDISCOVER and work fine. I do not know what the difference is whether is is client or server changes that need to be made.

Any thoughts?

Try doing: ipconfig /release_all then ipconfig /nenew_all

This should be done on the windows 98 client. What does your dhcpd.conf file look like?