[ILUG] dhclient on debian stable

[Declan Grady]

Hi,
Probably missing something simple here.. have googled to no avail..
Trying to replace a deadrat firewall with a debian stable one.

The deadrat gets an ip address via dhcp from my digiweb satellite 'modem' 
without a problem, using dhcpcd.
If I plug this out and connect it to my eth1 on the debian box, and try 
'dhclient eth1' it just times out.
I can use the eth1 on my local lan if I give it a fixed ip using ifconfig, so 
the card seems ok.
I did try a hard-reset of the 'modem' as well, but same result.

I had tcpdump running on eth1 and it looked like the dhcp server was replying, 
but I dont know enough about the dhcp stuff to be sure.
My logic is that the client sends a broadcast on 255.255.255.255, and then the 
server should respnd and say, yes, ok, here you are, use this address.
- Mabye theres more to it than this ?
Any pointers ?

I can redo the tcpdump, and post results if thats of any use.

Thanks,
Declan