I have a server with two statically addressed NICs that kept going to the DHCP registration page and wouldn't stop until I disabled one of the cards. Today, as I went to finish working on it, I see that problem has gone away. -- Kim Geiger WKAR Radio & Television, WKAR.org East Lansing, Michigan 517-884-4766 >>> On 7/10/2015 at 8:43 AM, "Bosman, Don" <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Possibly related, we’re seeing some student worker machines, under group > policy, that time out trying to connect to AD, before they can pick up a > group policy desktop. These are on static IPs. Prior to this morning, I > presumed it was our network. Now I have to wonder if it’s latency of some > sort on the campus network. > This might be interesting - if there are more responses. > > Don Bosman > Information Technologist > MSU Libraries > 366 W. Circle Drive - Rm.W441 > East Lansing, MI 48824-1048 > 517-884-0873 > > > > > From: STeve Andre' [mailto:[log in to unmask]] > Sent: Thursday, July 09, 2015 11:10 PM > To: [log in to unmask] > Subject: Re: [MSUNAG] Dell not getting dhcp info at start up > > Interesting and depressing. > > --STeve > > On 07/09/15 16:47, Gary Schrock wrote: > I just actually had two machines I just finished looking at that were also > having dhcp issues just now. Both a Dell and a printer had failed to get > dhcp addresses and had defaulted to their built in auto-ip addresses. (Both > of these were machines that would have gotten 35.15 addresses because they > weren't currently registered.) I just kinda wrote it off as a fluke, but > maybe there's something more widespread going on? Yesterday I had a machine > that I registered, got it's 35.10 ip address, then shortly after I got a call > saying that it wasn't working again, and sure enough, it had a 35.15 address > once more, but when I went into the registration stuff, it was recognized as > having been registered (that machine I had to unregister and reregister to > get working again). > > Gary > > On Thu, Jul 9, 2015 at 4:41 PM, Stephen Andre > <[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>> wrote: > So, here's a new one for me. > > A user reports that she isn't on the net when she boots up > in the morning. After five minutes or so, she is. > > I'm on this system now. I had a 169 address, meaning dhcp > failed. Doing a manual ipconfig release/renew fixes it. > > Any clues as to why this would fail this way? > > Thanks all.. > > > --STeve Andre'