| The 169.254.y.z address is a block bought by MS for use when a DHCP server is NOT available. The system will do a broadcast and attempt to determine what machines are already on the local network and assign the next numeric address that is in the sequence and not in use. Therefore that machine is not seeing the DHCP server. First things first, do you have connectivity at the physical level? IE, is the cable plugged in? Do you have a link light on the hub/switch? If not check cabling, power to switches and other physical layer components. If all of that is good, then manually assign an addy on the same subnet as that rest of the LAN, but outside the range used by your DHCP server. Ping the DHCP server. If that works, check that dchpd is running on the RH box, that there are still free leases. If none of that works then your problem is outside the scope of simple troubleshooting. |
