Ah! Ok,..very good.
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"Gregg Hill" <greggmhill at please do not spam me at yahoo dot com> wrote in
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> Hello, everyone!
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> The Nortel tech finally called back and confirmed what I suspected, i.e.,
> there was no need for the Nortel system to have DHCP enabled. He will come
> out tomorrow to turn it off. He has no idea why it was ever enabled.
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> Gregg Hill
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> "Phillip Windell" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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>> "Gregg Hill" <greggmhill at please do not spam me at yahoo dot com> wrote
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>>> Yes, they are on the same subnet, not at my doing. And yes, it is
>>> confusing, as currently one workstation out of four gets its IP from the
>>> damn phone system!
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>> The answer here is,..."You just can't do that",...period.
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>> DHCP is "first-come-first-serve". The DHCP Server that answers the query
>> ahead of the other one "wins" and that is the one used. There is no
>> reasonably decent, do-able, acceptable way to make clients get an IP
>> Config from a specific DHCP Server as far as I am concerned.
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>> Either put the phones on their own subnet so they can use their own DHCP
>> Server or the phones will have to get the IP Config from the regular
>> LAN's Windows based DHCP Server. Anything other than that is just simply
>> a disaster.
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>> Phillip Windell
>> www.wandtv.com
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>> The views expressed, are my own and not those of my employer, or
>> Microsoft,
>> or anyone else associated with me, including my cats.
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