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Re: DHCP error



OK, thanks. That is what I was looking at doing.

Mark

rmcdonald@gesn.com wrote:

> From: rmcdonald@gesn.com
> Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2002 16:08:19 -0600 (CST)
> Subject: Re: DHCP error
> To: <support@gesn.com>
> 
> That's not an Error "per-se" Mark.  I assign each NIC card as DHCP for my
> convenience.  Some counties have a LAN and some don't.  So, all you have to
> do to remediate this problem is give the NIC that is not obtaining and IP
> address(this means there is no DHCP server to dish it an IP address) an
> abitrary IP address.
> 
> Robert
> 
> 
>> I am seeing the following type of errors on all of the Florida GEMS
>> servers:
>> 
>> DHCP failed to obtain a lease for the card with network address
>> 00C04F370FB1. The following error occurred: The semaphore timeout has
>> expired.
>> 
>> I have instructed usersto hit the NO response the first time this
>> message appears at boot up, but this is not sitting well with many of
>> them.
>> 
>> Has anyone seen this other thanme? What is actually causing this?
>> Howcan  I prevent this from occurring? What is DHCP? It looks like some
>> sort of  a network connectionor service.
>> 
>> Putting a Dummy TCP/IP address into the DHCP properties seems to stop
>> the error, but I would like more info as to why this is happening and
>> what DHCP is used for.
>> 
>> Any help will be appreciated.
>> 
>> Mark
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