Re: Strange netmasks.
Marcus Berglund (ozmabs@hotmail.com)
Thu, 24 Jul 1997 19:46:33 PDT
>From: "Patrick St. Jean" <psj@cgmlarson.com>
>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...
>
And WINS (using DHCP) it seems too turn itself on when it feels like on
installation.
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