Hello, I have been trying to solve an error message that always occurs on system boot-up. The following is an excerpt from my boot.msg in /var/log/ <snip> <notice>/etc/init.d/rc5.d/S02dhclient start Starting service dhcp client on eth0<notice>startproc: execve (/sbin/dhcpcd) [ /sbin/dhcpcd -R -t 999999 -d eth0 ], [ PWD=/ BOOT_FILE=/boot/vmlinuz.2.4.16 HOSTNAME=scully CONSOLE=/dev/console vga=0x0317 PREVLEVEL=N AUTOBOOT=YES MACHTYPE=i386-suse-linux LINES=34 SHLVL=2 COLUMNS=104 BOOT_IMAGE=linux SHELL=/bin/tcsh HOSTTYPE=i386 OSTYPE=linux HOME=/ TERM=linux PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin RUNLEVEL=5 INIT_VERSION=sysvinit-2.78 _=/sbin/startproc DAEMON=/sbin/dhcpcd ] dhcpcd[247]: broadcasting DHCP_REQUEST for 192.168.0.3 dhcpcd[247]: broadcastAddr option is missing in DHCP server response. Assuming 192.168.0.255 dhcpcd[247]: DHCP_ACK received from JTRUTWIN (192.168.0.1) dhcpcd[247]: infinite IP address lease time. Exiting failed </snip> Searching for the exact error message on google came up with 4 hits. After reading up on dhcpcd, I am not sure if I even need it, but if I remove the dhclient scripts in /etc/init.d/rcX.d my network connection is log. ps -daef | grep dhcpcd tells me that the process is not running. I have a small LAN behind a router connected to my cable modem using roadrunner. The IP assignment from RR is dynamic. I have set up a DNS server on my linux box (192.168.0.3) and set up the router to use that for DNS. The router is also configured as a DHCP server, by default. I also checked dhcpcd-eth0.info: # cat /var/lib/dhcpcd/dhcpcd-eth0.info IPADDR=192.168.0.3 NETMASK=255.255.255.0 NETWORK=192.168.0.0 BROADCAST=192.168.0.255 GATEWAY=192.168.0.1 HOSTNAME=dhcppc2 DOMAIN=mn.rr.com DNS=192.168.0.3 DHCPSID=192.168.0.1 DHCPGIADDR=0.0.0.0 DHCPSIADDR=192.168.0.1 DHCPCHADDR=00:C2:F0:2B:1E:C4 DHCPSHADDR=00:A0:A5:E4:BB:6E DHCPSNAME=JTRUTWIN LEASETIME=4294967295 RENEWALTIME=2147483647 REBINDTIME=3758096377 Everything looks normal except the HOSTNAME, DOMAIN, and the 3 last lines. I am not sure where to go with this, thankfully my network seems to be working fine, but I am hoping to set up samba and possibly an e-mail server if I decide I have not had enough pain. I would like to have this working correctly before attempting those two tasks. Any help would be appreciated. Let me know if you need any other system info. Josh