If you have two nics - one onboard and a second one that you boot from, be sure the onboard nic is disabled. <div>On 12/22/07, Nadav Kavalerchik <<a href="mailto:nadavkav@gmail.com"> nadavkav@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">i've got a new eBox 2300SX connected to the terminal server (that works fine with different types of PC clients :-) while booting i get stuck on the stage in which the client request a new IP from the dhcp server. they negotiate for a few seconds and the eBox client stops with "error failed dhcp" (no response from dhcp server) here is the log on the server side: DHCPDISCOVER from 00:1b:eb:02:00:91 via eth1 DHCPOFFER on <a href="http://192.168.10.253">192.168.10.253</a> to 00:1b:eb:02:00:91 via eth1 DHCPREQUEST for <a href="http://192.168.10.253">192.168.10.253</a> (<a href="http://192.168.10.254">192.168.10.254</a>) from 00:1b:eb:02:00:91 via eth1 DHCPACK on <a href="http://192.168.10.253"> 192.168.10.253</a> to 00:1b:eb:02:00:91 via eth1 server is sending kernel to terminal and terminal loads ok :-) just before switching to X i get this error from the dhcpclient trying to get a new IP and not getting any from the server: DHCPDISCOVER from 00:00:60:00:00:01 via eth1 DHCPOFFER on <a href="http://192.168.10.252">192.168.10.252</a> to 00:00:60:00:00:01 via eth1 DHCPDISCOVER from 00:00:60:00:00:01 via eth1 DHCPOFFER on <a href="http://192.168.10.252"> 192.168.10.252</a> to 00:00:60:00:00:01 via eth1 DHCPDISCOVER from 00:00:60:00:00:01 via eth1 DHCPOFFER on <a href="http://192.168.10.252">192.168.10.252</a> to 00:00:60:00:00:01 via eth1 DHCPDISCOVER from 00:00:60:00:00:01 via eth1 DHCPOFFER on <a href="http://192.168.10.252">192.168.10.252</a> to 00:00:60:00:00:01 via eth1 DHCPDISCOVER from 00:00:60:00:00:01 via eth1 DHCPOFFER on <a href="http://192.168.10.252">192.168.10.252</a> to 00:00:60:00:00:01 via eth1 DHCPDISCOVER from 00:00:60:00:00:01 via eth1 DHCPOFFER on <a href="http://192.168.10.252">192.168.10.252</a> to 00:00:60:00:00:01 via eth1 DHCPDISCOVER from 00:00:60:00:00:01 via eth1 DHCPOFFER on <a href="http://192.168.10.252"> 192.168.10.252</a> to 00:00:60:00:00:01 via eth1 DHCPDISCOVER from 00:00:60:00:00:01 via eth1 DHCPOFFER on <a href="http://192.168.10.252">192.168.10.252</a> to 00:00:60:00:00:01 via eth1 DHCPDISCOVER from 00:00:60:00:00:01 via eth1 DHCPOFFER on <a href="http://192.168.10.252">192.168.10.252</a> to 00:00:60:00:00:01 via eth1 DHCPDISCOVER from 00:00:60:00:00:01 via eth1 DHCPOFFER on <a href="http://192.168.10.252">192.168.10.252</a> to 00:00:60:00:00:01 via eth1 DHCPDISCOVER from 00:00:60:00:00:01 via eth1 DHCPOFFER on <a href="http://192.168.10.252">192.168.10.252</a> to 00:00:60:00:00:01 via eth1 DHCPDISCOVER from 00:00:60:00:00:01 via eth1 DHCPOFFER on <a href="http://192.168.10.252"> 192.168.10.252</a> to 00:00:60:00:00:01 via eth1 DHCPDISCOVER from 00:00:60:00:00:01 via eth1 DHCPOFFER on <a href="http://192.168.10.252">192.168.10.252</a> to 00:00:60:00:00:01 via eth1 DHCPDISCOVER from 00:00:60:00:00:01 via eth1 DHCPOFFER on <a href="http://192.168.10.252">192.168.10.252</a> to 00:00:60:00:00:01 via eth1 DHCPDISCOVER from 00:00:60:00:00:01 via eth1 DHCPOFFER on <a href="http://192.168.10.252">192.168.10.252</a> to 00:00:60:00:00:01 via eth1 any ideas ? _______________________________________________ K12OSN mailing list <a href="mailto:K12OSN@redhat.com">K12OSN@redhat.com</a> <a href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/k12osn">https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/k12osn </a> For more info see <<a href="http://www.k12os.org">http://www.k12os.org</a>> </blockquote></div> -- Mel Wade "The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do." - BF Skinner <a href="http://www.melwade.com">http://www.melwade.com</a>