Hi, I got the dhcpd server (SuSE 9.1) running with the configuration below. But I cannot assign an dynamic IP address to my laptop (SuSE 9.0) in the local network now. The laptop is configured as a dhcp client and usually to works fine with this configuration. So I guess there are still some things missing in the dhcpd configuration? Can it be due to my firewall settings of the dhcpd server? I turned on ssh and rsync ports as well as forwarding and masquerading, protect all running services and trace route. Protect from internal network is disabled. Regards, Ulrich --------------------------------------------------------- # let's give the local domain a name # (which should correlate to your name server configuration) option domain-name "beer"; # this assumes that your dhcp server is also the router for the subnet option routers 192.168.0.1; # clients shall use this host as nameserver, too option domain-name-servers 192.168.0.1; # this can explicitely be specified option broadcast-address 192.168.0.255; # a minimal /etc/dhcpd.conf example # at first, edit /etc/sysconfig/dhcpd to configure all network interfaces # that the server should listen on (DHCPD_INTERFACE) # if you don't use dynamical DNS updates: # # this statement is needed by dhcpd-3 needs at least this statement. # you have to delete it for dhcpd-2, because it does not know it. # # if you want to use dynamical DNS updates, you should first read # read /usr/share/doc/packages/dhcp-server/DDNS-howto.txt ddns-update-style none; ddns-updates off; # this subnet is served by us authoritative ; # declare the lease times (the time after which a client needs to renew # its lease) # for production use you'll probably use lease times of several days or # even longer # (depending on whether hosts move in/out often (notebook note) or not. # for # example, you could assign long leases to your printers by class ids) default-lease-time 259200; # 3 days max-lease-time 604800; # 1 week # these 10 addresses will be given out dynamically subnet 192.168.0.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 { range 192.168.0.11 192.168.0.20; } --------------------------------------------------------