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

[Raseel Bhagat]

On Sun, Mar 8, 2009 at 9:30 PM, Priyadarsan Roy <priyadarsanroy at gmail.com>wrote:

> 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.


Dnsmasq is a DHCP server cum DNS proxy cum DNS cacher. But dnsmasq is
comparatively newer and less tested, or rather, more for the embedded
platforms. dhcp3 should not give you problems. There must  be some issue
with your configuration.

Thanks,
Raseel.
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