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On Friday 24 October 2008, Svein Halvor Halvorsen wrote:
        > Hi,
        >
        > I'm not sure if this is an issue with my dhcp server or the
        client,
        > but since I seem to get troubles with two different clients,
        I'm
        > thinking it might be the server:
        >
        >
        > I've got a FreeBSD 7.0-p4 machine running
        isc-dhcp3-server-3.0.5_2
        > serving my home network. When my Linux (Archlinux) client
        request
        > a lease, this happens:
        >
        > [root@weld:~]$ dhcpcd -n eth0
        > eth0: dhcpcd 4.0.2 starting
        > eth0: broadcasting for a lease
        > eth0: offered 10.0.0.176 from 10.0.1.1 `mirrorball'
        > eth0: checking 10.0.0.176 is available on attached networks
        >
        
        Are you sure you are using the correct command to start the DHCP
        client?
        
        I'm not familiar with Archlinux, but on Debian linux the command
        you 
        need is dhclient.  On the other hand, dhcpd starts the dhcp
        *server*