Ubuntu
dhcp3 package

  1. Bug #19740
  2. Comment #46

Comment 46 for bug 19740

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Web-forums-ubuntu (web-forums-ubuntu) wrote :

(In reply to comment #42)
> Breezy 5.10 Preview Release installer CD completely fails to activate DHCP on a
> machine I'm trying to install it on. It doesn't actually appear to be sending
> discover packets, as my DHCP server isn't logging any requests from the machine
> in question -- it's almost as if the DHCP client is trying to do this without
> even bringing the layer 2 link up.

I can no longer reproduce this problem; it appears that this must have been due
to a switch port going bad.
Sorry for the noise.