On 04/26/2015 08:28 PM, Peter Larsen wrote: > Strange - you may have a dhcp server that accepts host names from the > clients - which of course would fit your use case. Just realize that not > all dhcp servers are setup to be that "lenient" when it comes to > preserving the host name picked by a client. I can see in Wireshark that the client is not requesting any hostname in the DHCP Request and is ignoring the hostname that is returned in the DHCP ACK in favor of the one specified in /etc/sysconfig/network as long as the latter is _not_ "localhost.localdomain". -- Bob Nichols "NOSPAM" is really part of my email address. Do NOT delete it.