<html> <head> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=us-ascii"> <meta name=Generator content="Microsoft Word 10 (filtered)"> <style>  </style> </head> <body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple> <div class=Section1> I'm building network kickstart servers and I find myself in circumstances where I don't really know what is going on with dhcp servers in my building. Is there a dhcp server available? Is one being relayed onto the subnet of interest? What is the address of the dhcp server? I've noticed that when I run dhclient at the command line, it describes the conversation between it and the dhcp server. However, it seems I can only run dhclient when I want to configure an actual interface. Reading the dhclient man page, I thought the -n option would give me what I want. But when I run "dhclient -n", nothing seems to happen. So my question is this. Is there a tool that will contact and negotiate with a dhcp server, show me the conversation, but not affect any physical interfaces? Thanks! Andrew Robinson </div> </body> </html>