Topic: dhcp assignment, reassignment, renewal

[Brian Rafferty]

I have an NT4.0 network with the e-smith as dedicated server gateway.  Also it is the DHCP server.  Several computers have been assigned the same IP address. How do I correct this?

Brian

[Charlie Brady]

Brian Rafferty wrote:

> I have an NT4.0 network with the e-smith as dedicated server
> gateway.  Also it is the DHCP server.  Several computers have
> been assigned the same IP address. How do I correct this?

That probably means that you have more than one DHCP server on the network -  have you checked that all your NT machines have the DHCP server disabled? If that is not the reason, then your e-smith server at some stage lost its leases file - perhaps you reconfigured something. If that has happened, releasing and renewing the leases on each workstation will correct the problem.

Regards

Charlie

[Brian Rafferty]

Charlie
If the nt server is not the dhcp server and it's not, how do I release and renew the leases on the e-smith server?
Brian

[Charlie Brady]

Brian Rafferty wrote:

> Charlie If the nt server is not the dhcp server and it's not,
> how do I release and renew the leases on the e-smith server?

No, you need to release and renew the leases on the *client* machines - one or both of each pair which have been allocated identical IP addresses. The server can't fix this problem.

Regards

Charlie

[ale]

The way you could renew or clear the ip assignments is using winipcfg(in win 98) and ipcfg (win NT)

[ale]

The way you could renew or clear the ip assignments is using winipcfg(in win 98) and ipcfg (win NT)

[Patrick B]

Gentlemen,

I understand about using the release/renew option under win9x/nt/2k; however, my dhcpd.lease file is showing all the leases, including the expired.

How do I clear the dhcpd.lease file so that my cgi script (lanlord.cgi) doesn't report on inactive/expired leases.

Thanks,

Patrick