Can't get IP by DHCP (Wired network)

[Derek Broughton]

Dmitry Bond wrote:

> Thanks to all for your help! I finally got the internet on my laptop,
> but unfortunately, none of the solutions above helped me (DHCP still
> couldn't work).
> 
> The case is pretty strange. I talked with my ISP admins and they
> gave me static IPs and static settings. And it began working. Also
> they told me that on ubuntu the DHCP doesn't work for this provider.
> From other users on my ISP forums I heard that it's impossible to get
> IP from DHCP in any linux system (or with great trouble).
> 
> Probably, it is a specific hardware on my ISP (Windows-native huh?).

Probably not.  DHCP is pretty straightforward - I imagine we could get it
working if we were present.  I really don't believe there's such a thing as
a DHCP server that will only work with Windows clients.  It _might_ want
some specific values sent (like hostname - which many linux clients don't
do by default) before it sends a response.  A little network sniffing would
probably isolate the difference between what the Windows client did and
what the Linux client did.
-- 
derek