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Re: DHCP error
OK, thanks. That is what I was looking at doing.
Mark
rmcdonald@gesn.com wrote:
> From: rmcdonald@gesn.com
> Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2002 16:08:19 -0600 (CST)
> Subject: Re: DHCP error
> To: <support@gesn.com>
>
> 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
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>> 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
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