[WinMac] RE: DHCP: to be or not to be?

Daniel L. Schwartz(expresso[at]snip.net)
Tue, 13 Apr 1999 08:43:34 -0500

        Jed,

        When you use the Red Hat DHCPD daemon you mention that it has problems
with the PC's. Which PC OS' are having trouble: windoze 3.1, wfw 3.11,
windoze 95/98, NT/Workstation? More specifically, does this problem occur
with NT?

        Also, when you use NT/Server as a DHCP server, for how long did you set
the lease time... Hours, days?

        Cheers!
        Dan

At 07:20 AM 4/13/99 -0500, Jed wrote:
>
>Hi Lesley,
>
>I have little experience of DHCP but of what I've had I've had some success
>and problems.
>
>First of all, several people have said that they have problems using NT as
>a DHCP server when connecting with Macs. One of the biggest culprits seems
>to be under the Advanced User Mode settings of the Mac TCP/IP control panel.
>
>It says to 'Load TCP/IP when needed' and people have reported that when
>the protocol hasn't been used for a while it drops it, thus leading the
>MS DHCP server to believe it has finished with the lease of the IP. When
>the Mac then tries to reload the protocol and use the last IP, its been
>given to someone else or unavailable.
>
>People have said setting the TCP/IP control panel to have it loaded perman-
>ently helps and also increasing the lease time on IP addresses.
>
>On a second note, I've used the DHCPD daemon that comes with Redhat Linux
>5.2 running on a Sun Sparc for a while now. The Mac's don't have any
>problem with it, but the PC's do. It is documented that there are quirks
>in MS TCP/IP protocols that don't like DHCP and despite my server offering
>IP addresses, the PC won't accept them.
>
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