[wplug] Wireless access point & dhcp

Phil sublime78ska at comcast.net
Wed Feb 18 19:37:54 EST 2004


On Tue, 17 Feb 2004 08:08:49 -0500, Mike Procario <lists at procario.org> 
wrote:

> I have a Linksys WUSB11 which is USB based and surely uses a
> different driver, but I also had trouble with DHCP. I am running
> RedHat 9, and everything was fine until I turned on WEP. It
> appeared that the init scripts did the DHCP call before it did the
> WEP configurationi, so I ended up with a properly configured NIC
> but no IP address. I never did figure out the scripting issue. I
> went to a static IP and everything was fine. This is not going to
> solve your problem if you need to use DHCP, but it may point to
> where the problem is.
>
> Mike
>

Thanks everyone for the suggestions.  Restarting the dhcp server solved my 
problem.  I think it's not releasing the ip's, even after the leases 
expire and there are no devices turned on.  I'll keep an eye on it to see 
if that proves to be the case.

Phil





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