[634] in resnet
Administration in a post-XP world
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Daxter Gulje)
Thu Jan 10 12:49:44 2002
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Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2002 09:42:07 -0800
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From: Daxter Gulje <dgulje@HOUSING.UCSB.EDU>
To: RESNET-L@listserv.nd.edu
Howdy pardners-
I'm assuming that most of you on this list have had your
students return from Christmas Break by now, and I will also assume that
a large number of them returned to campus with a new computer loaded
with XP or have upgraded to XP over the break.
Has anyone else noticed a horrific amount of problems with XP
and networking? For example, we're seeing a problem here that requires
our individual attention on a per-user basis when it crops up;
A student's machine will obtain a valid DHCP lease from our
registration server. After registering, they are told to shutdown and
reboot for the changes to enable full Internet access. Now, on other
OSes (9.x/2k), you can at that point do a release/renew on the adapter
and get rid of the unroutable address the reg server gave out and get a
valid, routable address. You will still need to reboot, but you can see
that you have obtained a valid address.
Now, with XP, regardless of whether or not you reboot, shutdown,
or release and renew, the client will ALWAYS grab the non-routable
address again. The lease time for these addresses is only 2 minutes,
but XP clients have been off for hours and they will still get the
private address space lease.
The ONLY way I've found around this problem is to switch the
configuration to a static IP, ensure that the machine is able to cruise
around on the Internet, then switch back to DHCP, at which point it gets
a valid address from the reg server.
Has anyone else experienced this (or any other) whacked out
problems with XP?
/Dax <--sad, tired, and confused.
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Daxter Gulje
Assistant ResNet Coordinator
University of California, Santa Barbara
805.893.4747
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