On Mon, 2002-04-08 at 15:24, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Greetings, > Last week I tried Bearing. It worked fine for about a day, > then (when the previous lease expired?) my windows98 machine > was assigned a local network address in the 169.-.-. range. > The standard Bearing release evidently does not support DHCP > for the local network. I forgot to go back and reconfigure > the win machine not to use DHCP. Evidently, if windows is > configured for DHCP and does not find a DHCP server, it auto > assigns IP addresses. Just another of those 'special' > features that is not well documented and causes confusion. >
Actually, that 169.x.x.x address is part of the DHCP RFC. So it's not windows being stupid again, it's just doing what it should. > Thanks in advance, > Frank Kamp > DHCP is nice because you can update your DNS cache servers or whatever and not have to go and log into 5 different machines to change the settings. Makes it easy when a friend comes over and wants to plug in their laptop. Z
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