Networks DHCP problem...well kinda..

well, i got smoothwall installed on this little machine i built, and its running fine...

i have enabled DHCP and gave it a range from 192.168.0.10 to 192.168.0.30 to work from yet everytime i startup i get 192.168.0.153 as an IP adress...how is that possible??

 

Feck knows unless your manually assigned it, but you wouldn't be stupid enough to do that would you. Alternatively you don't have another machine acting as a dhcp server do you?

 

nope and nope...

the weird thing is that it is doing it on more then just my machine, and the ips arent manually assigned and i definatly dont have another server....

 

What Your O/S

I can help you but I need to know your O/S and whats the environment like. Do you expect how many pc's to authenticate to the PDC???


-Spawnhunter-

 

the os is linux ie smoothwall....my os in win2k as are all other machines...enviroment is 8 win2k machines, and one linux server all runnin through 100mbit switch...

 

Win2k is definately getting the DHCP info from somwhere...It defaults to an IP address from the APIPA (Automatic Private IP Addressing) Class B range of 169.254.0.0 to 169.254.255.255 if it cant find a DHCP server on startup. Try disabling Smoothwall and restarting the win2k machines and see what the results are. My smoothie is rock solid at DHCP serving so I'm not sure what your problem is.

Heres a little guide to make sure your clientside DHCP setting are right... http://www.physics.lsa.umich.edu/ocs/DHCP/2000/ sorry if I am teaching you to suck eggs...

 

cheers fly...al sorted now...it was just keeping the adresses for tooo long, and for some reason my pc likes keeping its adress so now even after many restarts a couple of days later it will get the same adress...o well the other pcs adresses change....

you said somethin about being able to enable file transfers over msn??

 

In smoothie you set the limit on the ip lease and also the ip range. Maybe you need to look @ these settings, also to goto a command prompt in win 2k and do a ipconfig /release to release the ip and ipconfig /renew to get the new ip.

 

did check them settings, and did release and renew the ip, but it froze on that for some reason...

well, it did change after 2 weeks or so now, but even though im not that bothered as i always seem to get teh first IP adress....might have a play around with positions on the switch sometime see whether that changes anythin...or the first pc to be turned on...got holidays comin up, so till then no foolin around....