dear mates

this is annoying me,

I am using one linux box which is connected to linksys dsl router-> and goes to internet
the same linux box is connected to a hub and in hub i connected another windows machine.

now i brought up this dhcpd service and at this time router was not working properly.

i got the ip address from linux box and windows pc was able to communicate with linx box.

after this i brought router and installed openvpn client and it will be connected to my friends browsing centre where he is running a openvpn server. the tunnel came up smooth..


here the problem starts

now restarted my windows machine with the DHCP option enabled. but i didnt get my LAN ip, instead i am getting my friends place ip address,

why my windows machine is looking at my linux box.

where i did the conf. error.

please post your dhcpd.conf and check which network interface dhcpd is bound to

Sounds like your windows box gets two DHCP offers, one from your linux box and another from your friends server. This might be wrong but have a look in your /var/log/messages for DHCP offers.