[K12OSN] dhcpd failed

[Rob Owens]

Are you sure there's not another DHCP server on the network?  And are 
you sure you want to be assigning public IP addresses to these machines?

-Rob

Marc Fromm wrote:
> I am experiencing limited success with K12LTSP.
> I installed K12LTSP Cent OS 5 EL from the ISO download.
> In the dhcpd-k12ltsp.conf file I commented the range line and I am
> setting up systems by Mac address and fixed IP address.
> 
> This system boots with no problems
> host finaid70 {
>   hardware ethernet 00:B0:D0:C3:0C:A6;
>   fixed-address 140.160.216.111;
>   filename "/lts/pxe/pxelinux.0";
> }
> 
> This system begins booting.
> Tail -f /var/log/messages states a "dhcpoffer" to the mac address
> 00:50:70:76:25:EA.
> The client eventually displays ERROR! dhcpd failed!
> host finaid71 {
>   hardware ethernet 00:50:70:76:25:EA;
>   fixed-address 140.160.216.228;
>   filename "/lts/pxe/pxelinux.0";
> }
> 
> The failed systems NIC as reported on during the client boot is a Rhine
> II fast Ethernet. But since it is communicating with the ltsp server, I
> assume the NIC is fine.
> 
> How can dhcpd fail on one system and work on the other?
> 
> Marc
> 
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