Check to default lease time of the DHCP server. If the time is not specified or too short, the clients will try to renew the lease and might hang because the server is offline.
-Naren On Sun, 27 Jan 2002, Ankit Jain wrote: > Hi, > I am having a seemingly wierd problem. I have dhcp server runnin on a > debian box which is serving windoze machines (runnin win9x,win2k,nt). I am > assigning ips based on the mac addresses, so fixed ip's(sorta). > > Now the problem is that whenever this machine goes dn(cos of network cable > failure or some other funda) all the client machines simply HANG, n wont > work till the debian box gets running again!! Why is this happening?? > Solutions?? > > Thanx > -Anks > > > > _______________________________________________ > linux-india-help mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help > _______________________________________________ linux-india-help mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help
