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Re: Very stange DHCP problem with SL5.4
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Dr Andrew C Aitchison <[log in to unmask]>
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Dr Andrew C Aitchison <[log in to unmask]>
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Thu, 11 Feb 2010 08:18:27 +0000
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On Wed, 10 Feb 2010, FRANCHISSEUR Robert wrote:

> Hello,
>
> After  installing  9  new desktops with DHCP I  changed  the  network
> config  to  static  IP and restart the network.  But they  are  still
> requesting DHCP adresse.  The dhcp server gives them a dynamic IP and
> then  there  are  no  free  lease  (we   have  only  5  for  guests).

You don't have the 2 "different" machines in your dhcpd.conf do you ?
I have my dhcp server reply for my static addresses as well as for guests
(very similar to a BOOTP request really - I nearly asked if the requests
were bootp since dhcpd can reply to those too).

Some of our recent windows machines seem to insist on making dhcp requests
even after I've reconfigured them to know their own address :=(

Can you confirm that the problem relates to 5.4 and not to the Dell 760s ?
Ie do the earlier machines upgraded to 5.4 also show the problem ?

If it is just the 760s I'd be looking at the serial-over-LAN
console features of AMT.

-- 
Dr. Andrew C. Aitchison		Computer Officer, DPMMS, Cambridge
[log in to unmask]	http://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/~werdna

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