On 01/22/2011 03:21 PM, Mark Komarinski wrote: > On 1/22/2011 10:30 AM, Jerry Feldman wrote: >> Yesterday at work, one of my coworkers wanted to make a presentation >> from his company laptop (Windows XP). For some reason his IP address was >> showing 192.168.x.x, not the internal company 10. address. I used my >> Ubuntu netbook to make sure the CAT5E cable was ok, and I certainly got >> a valid 10. address. We moved to another office because the lighting was >> better, and the same thing. We even rebooted his computer. Somehow it >> wanted to remain at 192.168. Our cables are plugged directly into a >> switch that plugs into our firewall. After a while we finally got the >> thing up and running on the corporate network. Note that I had even done >> a IPCONFIG /release and IPCONFIG /renew. I've seen this before on his >> previous laptop. Apparently he does something at home, but when I look >> at properties it shows DHCP. >> > Use ipconfig /all to verify that a lease is actually getting assigned. > If it is, you may have a rogue DHCP server on your hands. This has happened before on his previous laptop. I think it has to do with the way he configured it. No one else has the same problem.
-- Jerry Feldman <[email protected]> Boston Linux and Unix PGP key id: 537C5846 PGP Key fingerprint: 3D1B 8377 A3C0 A5F2 ECBB CA3B 4607 4319 537C 5846
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