Re: Epod Help

["andy_powell_is" <ukha@xxxxxxx>]

Errr... you forgot something.....

Andy 

/me sniggers

--- In ukha_d@y..., "Alancc" <alan.cc@n...> wrote:
> > > Can anyone help with an Epod problem
> > > 
> > > I have a wireless connection set up which works fine except
> > sometimes when the Epod is turned on I get this message "A
DHCP 
> > Server could not be contacted using cached lease
information" if 
I OK 
> > this it all works a treat.
> > > Not knowing much about networking I assume I have a DHCP
server 
set 
> > up as all the other wired PCs on the network are set to obtain
their 
> > IP addresses.
> > > I didn't set it up so where is this DHCP server and what are
the 
> > benefits of using fixed IPs.
> > > 
> > > Any ideas, in plain English please.
> > > 
> > > Thanks
> > > 
> > > Alancc
> > 
> > Alan,
> > 
> > If you do not have your Access Point runing as a DHCP server and
you 
> > don't have a DHCP server on your network then you need to use a
fixed 
> > ip address.
> > 
> > A DHCP server will dish out ip addresses. 
> > 
> > If you are going to use fixed ip addresses then I'd stick to 
> > 192.168.0.nnn 
> > 
> > Your machine is basically failing to contact a DHCP erver using
> > information that it has from a previous request for an Ip 
address, so 
> > it's telling you but keeping the address and using it..
> > 
> > make sense?
> > 
> > Andy
> > 
> >

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