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You can't comment out lines in Windows 95 by adding a #. You should leave
you windows configuration alone and comment out the lines corresponding to
that host on the DHCP server.
Ian
On Fri, 19 Mar 1999, McEwen, Don wrote:
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> Raven,
> Thanks for your reply. I should have been more percise in my description.
> What we have today is a dhcpd.conf file with every a host statement for NIC
> address in the building (Except for static IP address servers).
> I've added a pool for dynamic allocation to the configuration, and the
> server is issuing addresses to NICs not listed in the host statements.
> The problem is that I want to move everyone from static host statements
> to allowing the server to hand out addresses from a pool. To test this,
> I put a # as the first character of the host statement for my W95 PC.
> Then I started winipcfg and did a release / renew. The server log files
> show a dhcpdiscover, dhcpoffer, dhcprequest, and dhcpack for my PC but
> winipcfg reported an error and left me without an IP address and without
> any IP information.
> My plan was to comment out a number of host statements that correspond
> to the PCs of the IT department folks to perform my due dillagence testing
> and watch the effect it had on these users when they came in Monday morning.
>
> However, I'm unable to do this as I can't get a dynamic IP address.
>
> - Don
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Raven [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, March 18, 1999 5:05 PM
> To: McEwen, Don
> Subject: Re: Move from Static to Dynamic addresses
>
>
>
>
> On Thu, 18 Mar 1999, McEwen, Don wrote:
>
> > are being assigned out of and seem to be working great. However, when I
> > comment out the line with
> > my NIC (thus looking for a dynamic address) my PC (Windows 95. [Version
> > 4.00.1111]) doesn't seem
>
> I don't understand what you mean by commenting out the line, commenting
> out from what? Your dhcpd.conf file? something in 95 itself?
>
> > to like the response. I've watched the logs and can see entries for the
> > dhcpdiscover, dhcpoffer, dhcprequest,
> > and dhcpack but I don't get an IP address on my client. I tried a release
> /
> > renew, release all / renew all,
> > and even a reboot but no success.
>
> What are the system parameter the DHCP server is running on? platform, OS,
> RAM, etc.
>
> > I'm running DHCP server v1.0.0 (never upgraded, it's been working great
> > so I've been waiting for a non-beta
> > release). Any ideas as to why ??? My lease time is set for 1 day (38,401).
>
> > I remember seeing lots of discussions about similar situations, but
> can't
> > find them now in my folder
> > of dhcp mailing list messages.
> >
> > Thanks for any assistance...Don
>
>
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