Part of the DHCP protocol involves checking to see if the address is already in use. It may be interesting to do an arp scan to see if there are other devices connected to your network you're not aware of.
On May 29, 2010 7:41 PM, "Andrew Webber" <[email protected]> wrote: The networked printers already have static IP addresses as I posted, and the TiVos can be found by each other and by the TiVo Desktop software. I'd prefer not to assign a static IP address to the notebooks, wouldn't that mean changing their configuration every time we take them to another network? Whether it's a public network or another private one, it would be a pain to reconfigure and I'm not sure all users will remember the steps (not to mention, I'm not sure all users would even have permissions to change that configuration, though I've never tried it in Windows 7 as a normal user). I'm more concerned that the router is acting up/failing or that something is wrong. I _know_ I'm getting those errors from Access Connections and I assume a ThinkPad isn't supposed to just drop off the network then come back again and get a different address. Is DHCP just technology that's too complicated for this grade of router, or is there something I can do to make this more stable? And is that Access Connections problem fixable, or is it also possibly a problem with the router? Thanks! -- Andrew mailto:[email protected] Saturday, May 29, 2010, 6:59:14 PM, you wrote: > No they don't. You can just find it every time you... _______________________________________________ Thinkpad mailing list [email protected] http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpad
