PC won't see the proper gateway!

Hello all,

I have recently taken a job as administrator for a small network. It's a simple network and suffers from a a couple years without someone who could take care of the big picture. As a result there are two 4+ year old NetWare servers (Compaq) and two W2k clone servers, undocumented clone clients... and administration is much more of a hassle than it should be!!

Anyway, there is a rogue PC that suddenly insists on using the wrong default gateway for IP and I don't know how to make it use the right one. I believe that one of the NW servers does the DHCP. I've worked around this by assigning a static IP and designating the proper gateway, but I don't want to keep this network running the way my predecessors have done; I want to do it correctly.

Help? Thank you -

Jenni

 

What OS on the rogue PC? And is the gateway for internet access or do you have a routed local network?

And if the network is small enough and your available IP address pool large enough, static may be a better way to go than messing with DHCP. But if you do continue with it, I'm not so sure about using a NetWare server to do the job. I don't know NetWare well (and not at all since 3.x) but I'd think either M$ or Unix/Linux for that.

 

Newt,

Thanks for posting. The rogue PC is Win98. I suppose the place is small enough to go with all statics. But in my experience as a consultant (I was with a consulting firm for seven years, though my expertise is messaging and straight admin) DHCP is usually preferred... so I'd prefer to solve the problem rather than continue with a workaround.

My background is NetWare, through current versions, and we'll be putting in a new Compaq server with NW 6, etc. Just so you know my leanings. I don't believe in OS as dogma, but I certainly have a preference.

As to what the gateway is for... I'm not sure about the terms you're using, but we use NAT and the clients as well as the gateway are on the 192.168.x.x network.

Jenni