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DVNT1 · January 16th, 2004, 12:12 PM

"No response to DHCPBROADCAST" would normally indicate a cabling problem or DHCP server availability problem.

But when you used tried manually assigning a duplicate IP with a result of another machine showing a Duplicate IP on the network error. This normally indicates the cabling is good beween those two computers (at least).

So far , it is not clear if the DHCP server is working at the segment with the MAC and UNIX computer. Can the MAC successfully renew it's IP address?

Regardless of the DHCP avalability though, when you assigned a valid a static IP that should be become a null issue. At that point, I am unclear how to test setting problems within UNIX.

From a different perspective, the cabling to the UNIX machine might have a good transmit pair but a bad receive pair. I think this is another way to explain the basic symptoms you described.

January 16th, 2004, 12:12 PM	#2 (permalink)
DVNT1 addicted Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: Ohio Posts: 6,103	"No response to DHCPBROADCAST" would normally indicate a cabling problem or DHCP server availability problem. But when you used tried manually assigning a duplicate IP with a result of another machine showing a Duplicate IP on the network error. This normally indicates the cabling is good beween those two computers (at least). So far , it is not clear if the DHCP server is working at the segment with the MAC and UNIX computer. Can the MAC successfully renew it's IP address? Regardless of the DHCP avalability though, when you assigned a valid a static IP that should be become a null issue. At that point, I am unclear how to test setting problems within UNIX. From a different perspective, the cabling to the UNIX machine might have a good transmit pair but a bad receive pair. I think this is another way to explain the basic symptoms you described.