|-----Original Message----- |From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of |[EMAIL PROTECTED] |Sent: Monday, October 22, 2001 4:49 PM |To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |Subject: RE: [newbie] How do I release my IP number? | | | |Changing the name didn't get the NT server to give me a new |lease: that was the original problem. I had an ip number from -- SNIP --- |intranet. Strange, huh? DCHP gave me a new number that wouldn't work. | Yeah it sounds like it was tied to the MAC address instead of either Netbios naming or the DHCP lease request itself. |The only I'm worried about now is if my lease expires, will |the ip address I'm using be given away to someone else some |day? If I understood you, you said that as long as that ip is |active within a (default) period of 5 days, I'll be ok, even |though I now no longer have my network card set up to get an |ip via dhcp. | There is ALWAYS a chancee that you'll loose the IP, especially if there is a shortage of addresses available. However even after 5 days, your IP is thrown to the bottom of the pool (heh, analogy not intended). Other available IP's are distributed first on a time bases. That is, the leases that expired long ago get first priority for re-allocation. So it's quite possible for your system to be disconnected for months, and get it's old IP back upon rejoining the network if there are plenty of IP's available for new systems. -JMS
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