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Fair enough, but I do wonder if anybody actually uses the @home/work stuff? Seems like more trouble than it is worth to switch.

Of course the right solution would be to figure out why DHCP doesn't work in the first place. Anybody have any guesses? As far as I can tell absolutely nothing changed on the network and DHCP had been working fine for a couple years (and still works fine on my home LAN). The DHCP server is a redhat 7.2 box that wasn't updated in any way on the day this stopped working. I have used tcpdump and the server is responding to the address requests, but the empeg just keeps requesting over and over.

-Mike