Quote:
Originally Posted by mithrandir
169.254.51.212 is strictly speaking not a class B address, even with the class B netmask.
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You are of course correct... I was concentrating on the netmask (and using the term generically), rather than the fact that it's a private sequence/link local. I'll try to be more specific in the future.
In any case, a firewall can indeed be stopping the DHCP request depending on what ports and protocols are blocked (UDP 67/68 in the case for DHCP).
Except from /etc/services follows:
Code:
bootpc 68/tcp dhcpc # BOOTP client
bootpc 68/udp dhcpc
dhcpv6-client 546/tcp
dhcpv6-client 546/udp
dhcpv6-server 547/tcp
dhcpv6-server 547/udp
dhcp-failover 647/tcp # DHCP Failover
dhcp-failover 647/udp # DHCP Failover
dhcp-failover2 847/tcp # dhcp-failover 2
dhcp-failover2 847/udp # dhcp-failover 2
qip-qdhcp 2490/tcp # qip_qdhcp
qip-qdhcp 2490/udp # qip_qdhcp
All the best
OIC!