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Hi, yes the ip ranges are the same, it is just the second server did not
supply a gateway address. Since changing this I have not had any more
problems so with any luck that is what caused the problem. I will leave it
for a couple of days before I can say that for sure though!
Just need to find out why it is doing it though if this is the case, I doubt
we have too much traffic on the server, and it is still a reasonably powerful
server given the fact we only have about 60 clients (duel 1 gig xeons, 1 gig
ram, network seperated with about 6 netgear switches etc etc)
Thanks for the help, appreciate it!
Rick
"Michael Giorgio - MS MVP" wrote:
> Hi Rick,
>
> The second one makes sense. Actually I was thinking maybe
> perhaps a rogue DHCP server that is assiging the address
> without the gateway. Are you saying the tcp/ip address range
> is the same for each?
> "Rick T" <RickT@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:
> > Hi, thanks for the reply.
> >
> > The gateway is definately there, but could it be that the machine
> acting as
> > the gateway is not responding in time?? What is the delay before the
> gateway
> > detection decides it is not there? How many retries will it do before
> giving
> > up?
> >
> > The only other thing I can think of is that we have a second server at
> our
> > other site, which is connected to our network over a 64k leased line,
> this
> > server is identical to our local server and acts as a BDC, and it also
> acts
> > as a dhcp server for the other site. As they do not use a gateway
> their dhcp
> > does not supply the machines with a gateway address. Could it be that
> this
> > server is responding quicker than our local server and so supplying an
> ip
> > with no gateway?? I would find this unlikely because of the fact it is
> > connected via a very slow line and the system has been in place for
> over a
> > year without any problems like this occuring before, but is it
> possible.
> >
> > I have now set the server at the other site to give out the gateway
> address
> > too, to see if this helps, and so far have not had any problems, but
> because
> > this problem is random i do not know for sure if it has fixed it.
> >
> > Do you or anyone else know if it is possible to discover whereabouts
> the
> > client machine has obtained its ip from (i.e. which of the two servers
> has
> > assigned the address)???
> >
> > Thank you
> >
> > Rick
> >
> > "Michael Giorgio - MS MVP" wrote:
> >
> > > Okay so you run ipconfig /all on the client and the gateway
> > > is blank? The only thing I can think of that would this is
> > > Dead Default Gateway Detection.
> > >
> > >
> > > "Rick T" <RickT@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:
> > > > Hi, yes we have checked connectivity and it appears to be fine,
> the
> > > rest of
> > > > the machines on the network continue without problem too.
> > >
> > >
> > >
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