IP addresses

[Jeff Crosby <jlcrosby@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I had a weird one yesterday.  Our LAN IP addresses are handed out by the 
iSeries in the range 192.168.0.XXX with a subnet mask of 255.255.255.0. 
 In the sales room are cat 5 jacks for the outside sales people to plug 
into when they bring their laptops in off the road.  Yesterday a rep 
said she couldn't get connected.  I went back there and sure enough, it 
wouldn't work.

She's on W98 so I did an ipconfig /release_all followed by ipconfig 
/renew_all.  The renew, which usually takes 5 seconds, took over 20 
seconds.  The IP address she got was 169.xxx.xxx.xxx (don't remember the 
last 3 octets) with a subnet mask of 255.0.0.0.  I never did figure out 
how this happened.

After I got home, I remember I was in the midst of setting up a new PC 
running XP Pro (our first one) when this happened.  Is there something 
about XP Pro that it would try to hand out IP addresses and 'beat' the 
iSeries to it?  I looked at services on this XP Pro machine and saw 
'DHCP Client' but that's also running on my W2K machine.  I'm not sure 
where else to look.  Could she have done something to her W98 machine to 
cause this?

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Jeff Crosby
Dilgard Frozen Foods, Inc.
P.O. Box 13369
Ft. Wayne, IN 46868-3369
260-422-7531

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