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I have found this behavior when either:
- You didn't set the proper broadcast route
- There is another DHCP server on the network.
Check these and see. :)
Ian
On Sun, 21 Mar 1999, McEwen, Don wrote:
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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
>
> -----Original Message-----
> 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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