DHCP Issue

  • From: "Craft, Steve" <SCraft@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: "'isalist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx'" <isalist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 3 May 2002 11:39:56 -0400

In setting up an ISA system for a branch office, the external interface
is on DHCP.  Sometimes, the DHCP service/driver can't get a proper
corporate IP number, so it reverts to 169.xxx.xxx.xxx.  Of course then the
ISA services choke, and no one on the internal network can get back to
the main office until the machine is rebooted - asking for an ipconfig
/release /renew combo never lets it get past the router, but a reboot always
fixes it.

Is there a way to trap for that to make the machine forcibly reboot?
It's not like the ISA services don't start, so I can't make Win2K reboot
on their "error"; it's that they don't really have connectivity.

All help would be appreciated.  Thanks.

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