Re: informix net with windows clients running dhcp

On 10 Feb 97 at 14:17, Sid Shapiro wrote: > This may turn out to be a vague question - mostly because I don't > have many details - I am not doing the work myself.... It's not vague at all. :-) > Anyway, we'll be connecting some windows nt clients using informix > net (is that the name?) to a backed informix db running on an hp > system. The initial setup of the client works fine except that the > server seems to need the ip address of the client. All of my clients > are given dynamic ip addresses using dhcp. When we tried the network > informix connects, it didn't work. When we gave the client a static > ip address and put it in the hosts file of the server, then a > connection was made. This is (TTBOMK) correct and normal behaviour. Informix does not support DHCP, only static IP addresses... :( -- Ciao, Billy "...nod's as good as a wink to a blind bat..."