[Cialug] Slightly OT- Windows Mobile grabbing random IPs..

[david l goodrich]

On Tue, May 8, 2007 8:49 am, Jonathan C. Bailey wrote:
> It's slightly OT, but here goes... We have a set of 3 Windows Mobile PDAs
> (iPaqs - don't know which model) that will send a DHCP request, get a
> response, and then decide on an IP of their choosing randomly. The DHCP
> server runs on .9, the IP they commonly choose (another server) is on .2
> and the PDAs are "statically assigned" via DHCP to .138, .139, and .221.
> The issue isn't just with the .221 PDA, but with all 3 - anyone else see
> this before? The DHCP server is just a Debian box and nothing special.


I assume you've watched the network traffic when this happens to show that
the DHCP server really /is/ handing out the correct IP addresses and it's
the iPaqs that are malfunctioning?
  --david