Re: trying to obtain a lease from a dhcp server

From: Alan D Johnson (adjtech_at_hvc.rr.com)
Date: 11/23/04 

Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2004 03:17:04 GMT

Joseph Millman wrote:
> I'm running presently 10.20 on my 712/80i, but I've noticed the same
> behaviour when running 11.00
>
> The local network has been subnetted into a number of 10.???/16 subnets,
> and the DHCP client seems unable to retrieve a lease from the server. Most
> of the time I have observed this behaviour it has been on my home network
> and I can change the subnet to accommodate this one system. However for this
> instance I cannot, and would prefer to get this system accessible from the
> network.
>
> I have also noticed that if the system cannot renew it's original lease it
> asks the op if they would like to halt the OS instead of just taking a new
> lease.
>
> I'm thinking that there must be was around this short of just assigning a
> static IP to the system and making a note in my DHCP.
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Why would you use an HP box with a dhcp address? it just makes
management and use of the system that much more problematic. Hard code
it and a lot of your problems will go away. From a technical perspective
it sounds like you are in a vlan env and bootp/dhcp doesnt travel well
across that unless it specifically defined.

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