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 d
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
> 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 a
Frank,
The primary reason a Network Administrator uses DHCP is LAZYness, ;-)
instead of having to go around and "hard set" every client on a network,
when you have 200+ clients it's a whole lot easier to allow the client to
gain their IP address automatically.
There are a few oth
At 08:26 PM 4/8/02 +, [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
