it might help to set the 98 machines with the gateway of the router then do renew of address. Windows out of the box is designed to talk, thats why if it cant get an ip from dhcp server ..it will assign itself a number. It is well documented in windows 2000. > Greetings, > > For three years I used an old 486 running RH 5.2 as a router > box. It was hooked to a cable modem one side and my local > network on the other. It also ran as a file server under > Samba, and used Apache to provide a web site for the local > network only. > > Recently I graduated to Dachstein on a floppy because of > hard disk failure on the old 486. Besides, I did not get > that much use out of the web site or the file server. I > have run Dachstein for several weeks. Very happy with it. I > setup all my local network machines to work off DHCP. > > 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. > > So now I have a question. What is the advantage of using > DHCP on a small local network? I only have five computers > on the network. Would I be better off to manually assign IP > numbers? > > The only reason I used DHCP on the local network was because > Dachstein provided it. I did not select DHCP because I > thought I needed it. However, it did work and was > convenient. Are there better reasons to use DHCP on a local > network? > > Thanks in advance, > Frank Kamp > > _______________________________________________ > Leaf-user mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user
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