On Mon, Nov 07, 2005 at 04:42:07PM -0500, Don Hayward wrote: > On Mon, 7 Nov 2005, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > > >> > > > >What if you configure dhcpd to give it a fixed address? > > > > An interesting question. That works. But what does it mean? > It basically means that the DHCP server will always issue that same address to the specified MAC address. It is basically a lazy man's static IP. Why that works and a regular DHCP request-receive doesn't work is beyond my understanding. Maybe a broken DHCP implementation somewhere on your Windows box. -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://familiasanchez.net/~roberto
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