Moving across subnets

We have a 5 story building here. We have each floor set up
> on a different subnet.(i.e. floor 5 uses 10.100.105.x and
> floor 4 uses 10.100.104.x) When moving from one floor to
> another the workstation retains the ip address from the
> original floor. If I release the ip address before
> disconnecting from the original floor and then bring it
to
> the other floor and renew the ip address, it pulls an ip
> address in the correct subnet. Any ideas?

On Tue, 7 Sep 2004 09:16:22 -0700, "Marvin Bordelon"
<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>We have a 5 story building here. We have each floor set up
>> on a different subnet.(i.e. floor 5 uses 10.100.105.x and
>> floor 4 uses 10.100.104.x) When moving from one floor to
>> another the workstation retains the ip address from the
>> original floor. If I release the ip address before
>> disconnecting from the original floor and then bring it
>to
>> the other floor and renew the ip address, it pulls an ip
>> address in the correct subnet. Any ideas?

Set your DHCP lease to a low time period if you want to avoid this,
though that can cause issues as well. Easier is a release/renew as
part of your move.

Jeff