Re: [hylafax-users] Win2k weirdness

[Danilo Godec <danci@agenda.si>]

On Mon, 15 Jul 2002 rob.leadbeater@lynx.co.uk wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Looks like you're hitting some fun with Automatic Private IP Addressing (APIPA).

> From memory, if the machine is running DHCP, and can't get an IP
> address for whatever reason, it will get assigned one in the
> 169.254.xxx.xxx range.

Yes, that was my feeling too. But I don't use DHCP. My interfaces are
configured statically and they work... !?

I do have a DHCP server on the network, but it works normally (is used
daily) and it serves out our normal IPs.

> Check out
> http://support.microsoft.com/directory/article.asp?ID=KB;EN-US;Q220874&

OK, I'll do that.

> Exactly why WHFC is trying to send to this address though is anybody's guess !!
> Have you had any problems with DHCP ?

No problems (so far).

Thx, D.



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