Re: Strange netmasks.

Patrick St. Jean (psj@cgmlarson.com)
Thu, 24 Jul 1997 09:52:26 -0500 (CDT)

On Thu, 24 Jul 1997, Andrew Purtell wrote:
> To our systems they looked like badly formatted bootp packets.
> One of our NT machines started broadcasting these at a similar
> interval - never did figure out why exactly. Firewalling this
> traffic off didn't affect anything one way or the other.
>

That may be DHCP. AFAIK Mickeysnarf reimplemented bootp and named it
DHCP. Try turning the "Obtain IP address from DHCP server" option...

Pat

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