From owner-freebsd-questions Thu May 2 06:49:55 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id GAA26668 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 2 May 1996 06:49:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from alpha.dsu.edu (ghelmer@alpha.dsu.edu [138.247.32.12]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id GAA26660 for ; Thu, 2 May 1996 06:49:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (ghelmer@localhost) by alpha.dsu.edu (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id IAA12089; Thu, 2 May 1996 08:49:44 -0500 (CDT) Date: Thu, 2 May 1996 08:49:44 -0500 (CDT) From: Guy Helmer To: Steve Ames cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: DHCP and Win.95 In-Reply-To: <199605012009.PAA05079@cioeserv.cioe.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 1 May 1996, Steve Ames wrote: > Anyone built a DHCP server under freebsd and then had Windows 95 use > it? I believed I had the server compiled and configured correctly but > Windows 95 just does not see it... ARGH! I've used both bootpd-DD2.4.3 (ftp://ftp.ntplx.net/pub/networking/bootp/bootp-DD2.4.3.tar.gz) and WIDE dhcp-1.3beta (ftp://sh.wide.ad.jp/WIDE/free-ware/dhcp/) under FreeBSD to serve both BOOTP and DHCP (Windows95) clients, so I know these two work. These are the only two daemons I'm aware of that will respond to DHCP requests. dhcp-1.3beta requires that the kernel be built with the berkeley packet-filter interface ("pseudo-device bpfilter 1" in the kernel config file) and /dev/bpf0 exists ("/bin/sh MAKEDEV bpf0" in /dev directory). Check for error messages and request/response messages in /var/log/messages. bootp-DD2.4.3 will log to the LOG_DAEMON facility, and dhcps will log to the LOG_LOCAL0 facility; either way, on a stock system all messages of priority NOTICE or higher should go into /var/log/messages, so there should be some indication of whether your dhcp server is running, whether it had any problems reading its configuration files, and whether it has received any requests. Are your FreeBSD system and your Windows95 client on the same physical network segment? If not, do you have bootp forwarding enabled in the router between the two segments? Can your DHCP server see & respond to requests from regular bootp clients? Hope this helps, Guy Guy Helmer, Dakota State University Computing Services - ghelmer@alpha.dsu.edu