From: "Lewis G Rosenthal" Received: from [192.168.100.201] (account lgrosenthal HELO [192.168.100.26]) by 2rosenthals.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.0.9) with ESMTPA id 325281 for os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com; Thu, 31 Aug 2006 10:47:21 -0400 Message-ID: <44F6F674.3020401@2rosenthals.com> Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2006 10:47:16 -0400 Organization: Rosenthal & Rosenthal, LLC User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (OS/2; U; Warp 4.5; en-US; rv:1.9a1) Gecko/20060701 MultiZilla/1.8.2.0i SeaMonkey/1.5a MIME-Version: 1.0 To: OS/2 Wireless Users Mailing List Subject: Re: [OS2Wireless]DHCP Problems References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 08/31/06 10:30 am, Hakan thus wrote : > This is a wired question but the participants here are so knowledgeable > I am sure this is old hat... > > On a business trip I encountered a network where I was unable to log on > using my ThinkPad and the wired NIC. The network supposedly used DHCP > but my system was unable to obtain an IP address despite multiple > attempts, even after rebooting (also on different days). I eventually > was able to log on using a static IP address but also had supply the > DNS addresses as I was otherwise unable to surf the 'net. I should add > that this was an office network with many users and others temporarily > using it like myself had no problems with their Win systems. > > What might the problem have been? TIA. > > Something non-standard, no doubt. Offhand, though, without knowing more (log file, server configuration), I can't be sure. Of course, there is always the chance that the other temporary users had already used the system and their MAC addresses were known, or that the subnet pool simply ran out of addresses, though I would be surprised by either of these possibilities, as the coincidence would be amazing. I have not personally tried to obtain an IP address from a W2K3 DHCP server, so the Evil Empire may have changed something of which I am not aware. -- Lewis ------------------------------------------------------------ Lewis G Rosenthal, CNA, CLP, CLE Rosenthal & Rosenthal, LLC Accountants / Network Consultants New York / Northern Virginia www.2rosenthals.com eComStation Consultants www.ecomstation.com Novell Users Int'l www.novell.com/openenterpriseserver Need a managed Wi-Fi hotspot? www.hautspot.com ------------------------------------------------------------