On Wed, 9 Jun 1999, Audie Pierre wrote:
> Well, that's why I suggested from the start to configure a troubled client
> with a static IP address because I knew there was something weird about the
> "Mike's So Soft" DHCP server. Any IP address (specially the one being used by
> the Linux box) should have been in the EXCLUDE list.
> I have used MS DHCP before using a similar setting without any problem.
> Although I suspected your DHCP server, I took it for granted that the Linux
> box IP address was in the EXCLUDE list. Am I making any sense here?
Makes perfect sense :) Funny thing is... it wasn't even as tricky a
problem as the exclude list... it turns out... the Ip that was assigned
to me to use on the linux box, was already in use, turns out no one here
really knows what exactly is using it... but something already has it
statically assigned to it.. anyone know any good method of tracking down
the hard ware attached to a ip address?
-Josh
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> > Ahhh!
> >
> > Thank you for your responses everyone.
> >
> > Since I have been milling over this problem and pestering all of you with
> > it I thought I'd let you all know that I found the problem and sort of
> > corrected it.
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > Thanks for your help.
> > If there's anything Iv'e described that just doens't make sense, or is a
> > silly way to do things, please mention it. :) Thanks again.
> >
> > -Josh
>
>
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