Re: Win 2003 DHCP Problem

bdsi wrote:
> Hello,
>
>
>
> We are at the beginning of converting our school system from Netware
> 6 with servers in every building to centralized 2003 server forest.
> We have recently had Fiber installed between 3 of the buildings with
> others to follow over the summer. With this fiber we have moved for
> Netware DHCP to 2003 Server DHCP. 2 of the 3 buildings have worked
> fine, but the High School has a problem with the old Windows 98
> Machine randomly dropping the gateway address. Some time these
> machines will hold for a day other times only for about 15 Minutes.
> This problem is not happening in the other 2 buildings and is not
> affecting the XP Pro Machines.
>
>
>
> On these machine we have tried all of the following, moving hub/switch
> locations, changing NIC cards, completely reloading machines from
> scratch. And none of these have worked. We have the same machines,
> NICS and loads in the other 2 buildings and they work fine. We have
> also checked all the DHCP scope settings to see that they match.
>
>
>
> We only need a fix to get us thru the next 5 weeks as we will be
> completely changing all the machines to new dells with XP Pro after
> the school year is out.
>
>
>
> Any Ideas on what to do to fix this?

If it is loosing the gateway, you should check that the DHCP is assigning
the gateway and that no other DHCP server is running on the network. If the
client drops the gateway run ipconfig /all to verify it is getting the
correct settings from the correct DHCP server.



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