Re: Re: Epod Help

["Alancc" <alan.cc@xxxxxxx>]

> --- 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

S**t sent the last one before I put the reply in :-)

Makes sense except where do my other wired PCs get their IPs from, how do
I
tell if I have a DHCP server.

Thanks

Alancc

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