Tom Brown wrote on Thu, 17 Apr 2008 19:40:21 +0100:
Why should that make any difference?
The conversations looked a bit like you had several clients with the same MAC in the LAN. This can happen if one copies existing config files.
Also, I know there are cases where a DHCPOFFER (or any DHCP packet from the server for that matter) may not make it over the bridge for the VMs).
I'm afraid I can't help more, I can just say that I've never seen such a conversation:
Apr 16 14:25:53 cobbler dhcpd: DHCPREQUEST for 192.168.12.212 (192.168.12.117) from 00:0c:29:16:f8:b5 via eth0:
Any hint where that (192.168.12.117) comes from? I see that you have the same on your successful conversation, though.
Is there a chance you have two DHCP servers on the LAN?
Kai