On Thu, 8 Feb 2001, Alen Salamun wrote:
- Hi!
-
- I am running dhcpd on Mandrake for a small network. Whenever someone brings
- a nootebook (Win98) and connects it to the network, nootebook first tries to
- use the IP it got on other network over DHCP. Since the IP it uses on other
- network is used here by another machine, it doesn't work. If I try to
- release all and reget dhcp info on nootebook it get's the right IP and
- works.
-
- Is there any way to make the nootebook work without this "release all/reget
- all" stuff?
Probably not. This is a problem with the Windows DHCP client rather
than a server side issue. IIRC, it is because the Windows client does
not react correctly to the DHCPDENY message.
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