Interesting point, Victor, and I think you may be right on. I've noticed
that even though all the machines (all Windows, including the DHCP server
box, except for my PowerBook and Newt) are set for DHCP, they do in fact get
the same IP address every time. So it appears I'm hosed for now.
- Dave
On 10/25/01 4:30 PM, "Victor Rehorst" <victor_at_newtontalk.net> wrote:
>
> On Thu, 25 Oct 2001, Dave Abramowitz wrote:
>
>>
>> I'm using my company's box (beta tester). It's a combination of a Linksys
>> router, Zone Alarm Pro (firewall) and anti-virus (us, Trend Micro). It seems
>> to be dolling out IP addresses to all of the internal machines just fine,
>> accepting all connections. I've checked the config, and I can't see anywhere
>> to get really granular about DHCP. Doh.
>
> Do the other machines (I'm assuming they're Windows or MacOS here) send
> hostnames with their DHCP requests? I know I'm being a little vague
> here... basically, with DHCP you can optionally send a string to identify
> yourself to the DHCP server - this can act either as a silly form of
> authentication, or to "reserve" an IP in the list so that you always get
> the same IP address. If this is required by your router, then you won't
> be able to DHCP with your Newton, because NIE 2.0 doesn't support sending
> this hostname/username/whatever.
>
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