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I have a DHCP service under Novell 6.5 server in the running DNS/DHCP module.
The DHCP have an IP range in a subnet: x.x.x.200-x.x.x.210, where registering the only 2-3 workstations what are have automatic IP request in the OS settings.
(The lot of workstations have an own fix IP, but I want to change it in the future.)
Its works correctly.The problem begins, when I set a fix IP in the DHCP for a workstation by the MAC address. It seems a good ide to me, but it doesn't works:
I set in the DNS/DHCP a concrate workstation's MAC address ("MANUAL" mode) and pair an IP address, eg. x.x.x.198.
In line with this in the DHCP sets a subnet range eg. x.x.x.200-x.x.x.220So, after this in the next boot the WinXP OS cannot have the right IP:x.x.x.198, but gets IP from the subnet range: x.x.x.200
I don't understand this: why get the workstation bad address (x.x.x.200) instead of the correct (x.x.x.198)?The most interesting is that it's works correctly (gets the x.x.x.198 IP)under Win98 with the same settings, same PC.
I have no idea! Please help!
my understanding is that the reserved IP address still needs to come from within the subnet. You specify subnet 200-220, but then say your manually set IP address is 198. Here's the relevant line in the Netware documentation:
"Select the subnet that contains the IP address you want to modify."
So try it with a manually reserved address of 202 for example.
Also - why do you want DHCP with MAC reservations when you only have 3 workstations? It's far easier to just configure them statically.
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Thanks for the answer!
So, We have about 60 workstations, with fix IP.
In the future I want to set all the computers configured by the DHCP with MAC reservations.
The 3 ws. have automatic IP setting (this provisional!).I read the text You quoted.
In the "subnet address range" cannot set IP.
Only at the upper level, at the "subnet object".Owing to something the good IP (198) becomes
a bad IP (200)-what can find in the allocated range.
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"..Owing to something the good IP (198) becomes
a bad IP (200)-what can find in the allocated range."this is very hard to understand. And the second part doesn't make grammatical sense. Do you mean "...which can be found in the allocated range."?
by the way, do you have a network sniffer program, so you can have a look at the DHCP traffic?
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Ok, I'm not a linguistic prof, and I write from Hungary.
So: I will use the Ethereal sniffer program -as soon I can.
Zs.
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I'm not putting down your english - i have a lot of sympathy because I learnt german. Your english is better than my german! But, if you confuse the active and passive verbs, then it becomes almost impossible to understand, so you should relearn that.
Have you tried yet to set the reserved IP address WITHIN the subnet range?
"If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure." - BILL CLINTON
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Thanks for the help.
So, I use English rarely, exact in conversations. Learning a language is very hard from books. Is's better, when you can speak a lot of.
About the problem:
Witch IP you mean to reserve?
I think the problem is not in the DHCP, because it looks correctly.
We have a new Novell 6.5 (after the NW6.0) since a month, and we began to change the Clients.
It seems everything ok.
Maybe the network monitor program will give the answer.
Zs.
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if you have a DHCP range of 200-230, then reserve IP addresses for MAC addresses between 200 and 230. Don't use 198, which is outside the scope.
"If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure." - BILL CLINTON
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