["Jon Baer" <ethereal@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> can find information on how to interpret
> the results from the captured packets that is easy to understand.
>

Ehh this is what Ethereal does ... :-)

> I am trying to troubleshoot why some of my pc's are not getting an IP
> address when it's lease runs out from the DHCP. I figure I would use
> ethereal to see what is going on with the traffic on the network. I am
> hoping to be able to interpret what's going on with the network and fix

Open Ethereal and apply the filter @ the bottom of "bootp.dhcp" and see what
happens when you try to renew the lease ... also go to http://www.dhcp.org
to find our more info about the protocol and check to make sure there are
not more than 1 DHCP server on the same segment.

- Jon