RE: DHCP error

["Ken Clark" <ken@gesn.com>]

Machines should ship from McKinney with an a private nonroutable class C
network address, not the assumption of a DHCP server.

Ken




> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-support@gesn.com [mailto:owner-support@gesn.com]On Behalf Of
> rmcdonald@gesn.com
> Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2002 2:08 PM
> To: support@gesn.com
> Subject: Re: DHCP error
>
>
> 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
>
>