If the DHCP is up, it renews the IP anyways.
The thing is that the client is ALWAYS trying to renew the IP.
Any idead why that would happen?
Remember, there's no reservation, special scope, the config for this
client
is the same for others which do not show up this issue.
"LRM" wrote:
>
> "JaR" <jrderby@lakabux.com> wrote in message
> news:Xns9712719ACC465Misanthrope@207.46.248.16...
> > In microsoft.public.cert.exam.mcse, =?Utf-8?B?Zm1zbWNzZQ==?= spewed
> > across the ether:
> >
> >
> >> Yes, it can't find the net, but it should keep the IP until the
lease
> >> expires if it couldn't contact the DHCP at 50% and 87,5% of the
total
> >> time for the end of the lease.
> >
> > Forget about the lease. If the client is giving itself an APIPA, it
can't
> > see the DHCP server for some reason.
> >
> Right, and the OP said it can't see the network, so that's why it
could have
> an apipa address if it was unable to repair before the network went
down,
> thus loosing it's originally assigned address.
>
> LRM
>
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