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Ted,
Thanks for your replies. I downloaded pl18 and tried it tonight. I
changed the dhcpd.conf file, changed my NIC address to 99:xx:xx:xx...
and then did a stop and restart of the daemon. Then I rebooted my
W95 machine but to no avail. I then did a shutdown and powered it down
(a suggestion from another on the list) and then after 10 second wait
tried again. I have 2 entries in the lease file, so the server is providing
the lease, only problem is that my PC doesn't seem to be listening.
I get "error - Access denied renewing adapter" on my PC. The server
thinks everything is fine.
Any other ideas ???
Thanks again for your time..Don McEwen
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From: Ted Lemon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Saturday, March 20, 1999 2:28 PM
To: McEwen, Don
Cc: 'Raven'; '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
Subject: Re: Move from Static to Dynamic addresses
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> 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.
The problem here is that what you did was to make the server forget
the IP address, so when the Win95 box tried to get it, the server
refused to either give it the address _or_ tell it the address was bad
- since it knew nothing about the address, it assumed it belonged to
some other DHCP server.
You can work around this by changing the host entry in the
configuration file to have a different hardware address or client
identifier - then when the client tries to get the address, the server
sees that it belongs to some other client and sends a DHCPNAK.
DHCPNAK behaviour is most correct in pl18, so I'd recommend running it
in favour of, e.g., pl6 if you want it to do the right thing. The
3.0 snapshot will also do the right thing.
Now, the only catch about this method is that it's a hard way to
switch over, because you can't reuse any of the static addresses until
you've changed their ownership in the lease file and the maximum lease
time a client might have gotten has expired. So in practice, you
have to allocate a whole new set of addresses for dynamic allocation,
change all the static assignments, and then restart the server and
leave the static assignments in place until you're sure they've all
expired, and *then* you can delete the static assignments and put
those addresses in the dynamic pool. :'(
_MelloN_
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