[640] in resnet
Re: Administration in a post-XP world
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Martin Manjak)
Thu Jan 10 15:25:01 2002
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Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2002 15:13:19 -0500
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From: Martin Manjak <MManjak@UAMAIL.ALBANY.EDU>
To: RESNET-L@listserv.nd.edu
Dax,
We used to see a very similar problem on Win95
systems. Have you tried rebooting the system without
the network connection (unplugging it from the wall jack),
and releasing and renewing under these circumstances?
That used to work with recalcitrant 95 clients. It's a pain
but less so than assigning a static IP.
M-
Martin Manjak
Director, Residential Network
University at Albany
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Daxter Gulje [mailto:dgulje@HOUSING.UCSB.EDU]
> Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2002 12:42 PM
> To: RESNET-L@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
> Subject: Administration in a post-XP world
>
>
> 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.
>
> __________________________________________
> Daxter Gulje
> Assistant ResNet Coordinator
> University of California, Santa Barbara
> 805.893.4747
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