At 08:26 PM 4/8/02 +0000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >it might help to set the 98 machines with the gateway of >the router then do renew of address.
This is simply wrong. When a system (any system) looks for a DHCP lease, it sends out a broadcast packet that any DHCP server on the same LAN should be able to see and respond to. Gateway address is normally part of a DHCP lease, and offhand I don't even know that it is possible to set a gateway address by hand on a machine that you are NOT also assigning an IP address to by hand. If the original poster has not been forcing a lease renewal, though, that is something he should do. >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. This is correct. At others have noted, the 169.something-or-other addresses are a standard part of IP address standards. (A practical use for them, BTW, is direct connection of two laptops via a crossover cable.) -- ------------------------------------"Never tell me the odds!"--- Ray Olszewski -- Han Solo Palo Alto, CA [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Leaf-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user Sponsored by http://www.ThinkGeek.com/
