> By paying close attention to my ROUTE and ARP tables I was able to find
> that on the Win95 client the IP address of the linux server was bound to
> an incorrect hardware net address in it's ARP table. I believe the DHCP
> server or one of our other server type machines was broadcasting that the
> IP of the linux box was associated to someo ther card. I believe this is
> because normally our network uses DHCP and dynamically assignes IPs,
> except the linux box is on a static ip, problem is, the DHCP doesn't know
> about it... so it's getting confused. Ultimately I believe I need to
> change something on the DHCP server to make it clear that the linxu box
> is in fact the specific IP that it is. As of now I havn't done that but
> have more or less fixed things by just having the Win95 client by
> dynamically assigned it's IP, and then by running a short script,
> manually definin gth default route to the linx box, and statically
> assigning the entry in the arp table.
To fix the server, just go into the DHCP server control,
and put the Linux box in as a static reservation.
I can't remember the exact sequence, but if it's not obvious, drop
me an email back.
Martin.
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