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saixbot

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Hi Everyone

Had a strange gremlin in the works at the office today and wondered if anyone could assist or point me in a direction to resolve the matter.

Get into the office this morning and fire up the ol laptop from a shut down state. Wireless connection is there (SSID displayed) but just will not connect - the NIC is set to Dynamic IP.

When I assigned the IP address manuallythen bang, it worked. Solved the problem for the short term there are loads of peeps on wireless and all are not as tech savvy to change their IP's as they move around.

Thanks in advance!
 
How many is loads?
How big is your dhcp scope/range?
 
Well some exaggeration at work on my part too, sorry... Not that many really, 5 - 10 at any given time. More than enough IP's available though.

It's a mixed LAN consisting of some Domain Clients on static IP's [20 assigned and 15 in use via the Windows DHCP server] and 12x P2P users not on the Domain but same work group with DHCP assigned IP's from the ADSL Firewall router, if that makes sense?
 
saixbit,
This behaviour is typical of exhausting your DHCP IP pool. Maybe consider reducing the lease time of the IPs to 12 hours or make more IPs availabe in the DHCP pool.

HTH
 
hey all - yes thank you... and so i learn ;)

Went in to the office today and extended the IP scope somewhat and whala all sorted.
Thanks for the help and pointers everyone :)
 
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