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To: Spots who wrote (5243)	1/18/1999 10:51:00 AM
From: Dave Hanson	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14778

Answers to Spots (who's helping me diagnose network problem): 1. IP addresses are leased in 4-6 hour hunks, dynamically assigned b y the US West DCHP server. 2. Yes--all three get different IP addresses 3. I don't know what 3 means (routing tables), but you may be on to something there--as my post to Sean indicates, the masks are different for the two machines (but I don't know if this matters) 4. No. I checked again, and only TCP/IP is listed under protocols. NETBUI is nowhere in site. I was trying to keep things simple and robust by going TCP/IP all the way. Perhaps I'll end up having to add Netbui. Thanks again, Spots. Let me know if more follow up would be helpful.

To: Spots who wrote (5243)	1/18/1999 11:03:00 AM
From: Sean W. Smith	Respond to of 14778

3. If 2. is true, do the routing tables in the three machines show network masks that will allow the machines to communicate with each other? Thats his problem. The two machines posted are on different subnets so the method of broadcasting to resolve names won't work. Since he has no NT Server, WINS is not an option, and LMHOSTS is painful. The easy solution here is Netbeui which from what I gather he does NOT have installed at all. It's not at all clear to me how a DHCP server would be able to talk through a hub to assign IP addresses to several machines, so there's clearly something I don't understand about your setup. A Hub is a clearly passive device. IP routers don't forward broadcasts but make an exception for BOOTP, DHCP and will forward all such broadcasts to the helper address defined in the router config which is typically the DHCP server. Sean