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Re: DHCP under OS/2, some quirks (ie: can't connect!)

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On Sat, 18 Jan 2014 18:29:56 UTC, "Mentore Siesto" 
<mentoreshoryu@fattimiei.zx> wrote:

> Hello everybody.
> 
> I just bought a Netgear wireless router to connect my four desktop PCs
> (one completely working under eCS, the other three are yet to be built
> and setup with eCS or Linux/BSD) and the mobile systems (some old 
> laptops and a little tablet). It has four Ethernet sockets, so I can 
> connect those to the PCs.
> 
> It seems, though, that I can't reach the router with eCS. I tried some
> different approaches, making sure that the router is configured as the
> old Netgear I'm still using, but without results. The router works, 
> and the wireless section is OK (I can reach it with my little tablet 
> and even browse the web/read and write email).
> 
> So I tried to use it setting eCS in DHCP mode, but at startup I find 
> the DHCP client waiting a minute without getting an IP. Then the 
> bootup stops, even if I wait after the error message pressing the 
> Enter key to let the system continue booting (as it happens for a 
> normal CONFIG.SYS non-fatal error).
> 
> I read something on the web about DHCP and eCS, but it seems to me it 
> should be really straightforward, so I'm a little puzzled.
> 
> Do someone of you use eCS with a router set as DHCP? 
> 
> Thanks in advance.
> Mentore

Do what we do here, all wired machines are setup with fixed IP that is
outside the DHCP range of the DHCP server which allows wireless 
devices to connect via DHCP when they need to.

All our computers are either OS/2 Warp 4 ow WSeB.  The DHCP server is 
the internet modem that connects to a 48 port switch for the wired 
boxes and the netgear wireless router hangs off a port from that 
switch [it has the DHCP server switched off of necesity].

This setup has been working from OS/2 v2 days - only the equipment has
been updated to keep up with the times [most boxes have Gbit NICs and 
the switch is Gbit as well].

ivan 
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DHCP under OS/2, some quirks (ie: can't connect!) "Mentore Siesto" <mentoreshoryu@fattimiei.zx> - 2014-01-18 18:29 +0000
  Re: DHCP under OS/2, some quirks (ie: can't connect!) Paul Ratcliffe <abuse@orac12.clara34.co56.uk78> - 2014-01-18 19:19 +0000
    Re: DHCP under OS/2, some quirks (ie: can't connect!) "Mentore Siesto" <mentoreshoryu@fattimiei.zx> - 2014-01-18 20:19 +0000
      Re: DHCP under OS/2, some quirks (ie: can't connect!) "Allan" <allan2@warpspeed.dyndns.dk> - 2014-01-19 00:25 +0100
        Re: DHCP under OS/2, some quirks (ie: can't connect!) Paul Ratcliffe <abuse@orac12.clara34.co56.uk78> - 2014-01-27 17:42 +0000
          Re: DHCP under OS/2, some quirks (ie: can't connect!) "Mentore Siesto" <mentoreshoryu@fattimiei.zx> - 2014-02-02 17:54 +0000
      Re: DHCP under OS/2, some quirks (ie: can't connect!) Paul Ratcliffe <abuse@orac12.clara34.co56.uk78> - 2014-01-27 17:39 +0000
        Re: DHCP under OS/2, some quirks (ie: can't connect!) Dave Yeo <dave.r.yeo@gmail.com> - 2014-01-27 13:34 -0800
  Re: DHCP under OS/2, some quirks (ie: can't connect!) Lars Erdmann <lars.erdmann@arcor.de> - 2014-01-19 20:35 +0100
    Re: DHCP under OS/2, some quirks (ie: can't connect!) "Mentore Siesto" <mentoreshoryu@fattimiei.zx> - 2014-01-19 22:31 +0000
  Re: DHCP under OS/2, some quirks (ie: can't connect!) "ivan" <ivanjt@free.fr> - 2014-01-19 19:37 +0000

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