On 8/9/10 8:49 AM Eero Volotinen wrote: > 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. good idea. I'll try it this afternoon which grml ;-) many thanks Richard