I'm attempting to boot a Linux box onto a Win 2000 network (Ethernet). I've enabled DHCP and everytime I start the network, it's being assigned IP 192.168.0.56. Using Ethereal, I've determined that the Linux box (DHCP client) is requesting that IP in the REQUEST msg Options and DHCP server (Win 2000 server) is returning an Ack. The problem is that this IP is a private IP and, as such, I'm not given outside access. I should be getting a 63.148.113 IP. I've attempted to remove the reference to 192.168.0.56 in /var/lib/dhclient-eth0.leases and /var/lib/dhclient.leases. Not sure what else to do. Thanks in advance for any suggestions!

I don't think the IP numbering is the problem. You don't want to see my IP numbers. In a correct working network no computer can have an IP number which already exists somewhere else. And it's pretty normal for computers in a LAN not to have "outside" IP addresses. As long as you've told Linux to take the IP number of the ethernetcard in the WIN 2000 computer as a gateway for default TCP/IP traffic everything on Linux side should be all right. It could be possible that the server wich runs under a Redmond operating system has to be told what to do with the incoming requests for internettraffic. If a machine can reach the internet, than that doesn't mean it will route traffic from other machines to the internet and back.