2010/8/9 Richard Gliebe <richard.gliebe at fhv.at>: > On 8/9/10 7:42 AM Barry Brimer wrote: >> How about firewalling ... does your firewall allow for a DHCP server? > > firewall isn't active inside the LAN. firewall can cause problems on windows machines.. maybe you can try for example ubuntu livecd and test if dhcp client works on that. -- Eero