[ubuntu-in] Why dhcp3 never works in ubuntu..?

[Priyadarsan Roy]

On Sun, Mar 8, 2009 at 5:12 AM, sanath kumar
<dayanandasaraswati at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hello friends,
>    I was trying to net boot my desktop machine. The desktop never is able
> to get the IP address from my laptop. I was examining the packets using
> wireshark. My desktop was sending dhcp request messages but my laptop never
> responds with any dhcp offer message. I tried various configurations of
> dhcp3 but none worked. Finally I uninstalled dhcp3-server and installed
> dnsmasq and in a jiffy my desktop picked up the IP address from my laptop
> and started to boot. Four of my friends also tried doing netboot with
> dhcp3-server but in vain. Why is dhcp3-server so badly written. And cant you
> ppl correct the bugs in it. Why is it a big headache to configure
> dhcp3-server. Cant any GUI be written for it..?
>

I have not had a bad experience with dhcp3 server ever unless I made
mistakes in the config file. I also do not understand how you started to get
ip addressed when you installed dnsmasq. dnsmasq is some thing that works
like a dns cacher for networks. One common mistake I used to do is in
/etc/default/dhcp3 you have to tell it to listen on which interfaces the
dhcp server should listen for serving addresses. That could be your problem.
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