On my network here, I've given up on using DHCP with my players.. it just doesn't work more than half the time.. pretty random, dunno why. tcpdump shows the requests, and the server's replies -- but the players ignore (or don't see) the replies. Weird.

All of the other (12) computer devices here are plugged into the same (only) switch, and handle DHCP with no problems.

Perhaps I oughta look into this some more.

Cheers