Hi everyone,
I just set up a DHCP server on my firewall so I could bring
my (NT) laptop home from work and not have to reconfigure
the network card with a static IP. I'm running the ISC
DHCPD.
The problem is, at work the DHCP server there assigns an
address from a 10.1.0/24 subnet. Then I bring the machine
home, boot it on my 192.168.81/24 subnet, and it tries
to renew its lease on the 10.1.0.xxx address. Since my
DHCPD doesn't know anything about that address, it ignores
the DHCPREQUEST, and the laptop never sends a DHCPDISCOVER,
so it never gets a valid address on my subnet. I've read
all the documentation that came with the server, but it's
not clear to me how to deal with this. Any ideas? (I
can manually release the address from the NT machine,
and it then acquires a nice shiny 192.168.81 address, but
the whole point of this was to not have to mess with
the client configuration all the time...)
(As an aside, does anyone know if it's possible to make
an NT machine acquire nameserver and gateway addresses
via DHCP?)
Thanks,
-- Joe
*** Joe Knapka ***
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