Help Please! I have Windows XP Pro installed on a Laptop. This machine is configured to use DHCP and does not use any static IP settings for DNS, etc. I have a second machine running Redhat Linux 7.3. The connection between the two machines is good, if I place a static IP address on the laptop, I can ping the Linux box. On the Linux box I have created an empty dhclpd.leases file in var/lib/dhcp. Also have created etc/dhcpd.conf with the following contents: subnet 10.10.10.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 { option routers 10.10.10.1; option subnet-mask 255.255.255.0; option time-offset -5; range 10.10.10.10 10.10.10.100; } The firewall is turned off from what I can tell. When I run "ps ax | grep dhcp" it shows an entry so I think DHCP server is running. I have loaded Q313896 hotfix from Microsoft on the Laptop that deals with XP not getting DHCP assigned address correctly. It did not help. Not really sure the statements in the DHCP config file are all needed. Any help, any help at all is GREATLY appreciated. Thanks, Jesse

The /etc/dhcpd.conf isn't right, your missing: default-lease-time time in seconds; max-lease-time time in seconds; you might want to add: option domain-name-servers address; After that type /etc/init.d/dhcpd stop Then of course /etc/init.d/dhcpd start just to ensure that it is stopped and restarted Good luck D