Re: AS/400 DHCP problem

[Neil Palmer <neilp@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Denis,

Check the Adapter Address of your Internet cards on the LAN for duplicates 
(with winipcfg or whatever).
Yes, this ISN'T supposed to happen - but we went through the same problem 
with a customer in Montreal a little over a year ago and first suspected 
they had an NT box running DHCP on the LAN, and after we eliminated that 
possibility we suspected a problem with DHCP on the 400 and opened a 
problem with IBM.  Well, it turns out the customer received THREE IBM 
Ethernet Adapters with identical addresses out of an order for nine IBM 
desktop PC's, so the 400 couldn't tell them apart.  Temporarily we gave 
two of them permanent IP addresses while IBM followed up to see how this 
could have happened.  They were going to replace the cards with the 
duplicate addresses and take the bad ones back to investigate. 
That was a year and a half ago. 
They still haven't bothered to get the old cards to check out the problem. 
 
I guess they're not too concerned about it !

...Neil





"Denis Robitaille" <DRobitaille@cascades.com>
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2001/06/19 14:22
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Hello all,

We recently started to use our AS/400 to serve DHCP adresses. Every thing 
seem to be working fine except that we started to receive error on our 
workstations. The error states that there is a conflict in addresses as if 
2 host were assigne the same IP address. This appens 2 to 5 times a week.

Did anybody else had this experience?

If so, how did you solve it?

Any input will be apreciated

Denis Robitaille
Directeur services techniques
Cascades Inc
819 363 5187
fax 819 363 5177




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