In review, I now see that the problem is clients eating your IPs. Could be
iPhones as Mr. Rasmussen suggested. But also could be PCs or Macs in the
library or in a building very near to it. To get a handle on that, if you
can see the MAC addresses of the clients on your DHCP server, you may be
able to determine what kind of devices they are here:
http://www.curreedy.com/stu/nic/.
Ed
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Date: Monday, February 08, 2010 5:44 PM -0500
From: Ed Siff <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: [LIBNT-L] Question re: wireless
> Hi Mary,
>
> When a DHCP lease expires, the client will continue to look for another
> IP - from any DHCP server. Could there be another DHCP server in the
> area from which the clients are getting new IPs? Or maybe there are
> non-lib clients in the area mooching IPs? Try ipconfig /all at the
> prompt on several clients and see if there is any big difference in IP
> numbers.
>
> Ed
>
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