LNM Quirks

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16th January 2006, 03:01 PM
indie

LNM Quirks

So what interesting "features" have you found with LNM?

The first one I have found is during setup where it want's me to specify IP addresses for the DHCP scope. I just ran the installer on a spare machine to see what it's like, I left it with the defult DHCP settings it came up with:

Start IP: 192.168.0.50
End IP: 192.168.0.254

Then when I press next it says that the End IP must be higher than the Start IP!

Changed the Start to 192.168.0.10 and the end to 192.168.0.200 and it works, maybe it's only validating the IP address by the 1st digit in the fourth octet?
16th January 2006, 03:19 PM
russdev

Re: LNM Quirks

lol

on serious note if we do found things i think it is worth us feeding it back to ms via our contact...

what you think tony?

russ
16th January 2006, 03:20 PM
TechMonkey

Re: LNM Quirks

Quote:

Originally Posted by indie

So what interesting "features" have you found with LNM?

The first one I have found is during setup where it want's me to specify IP addresses for the DHCP scope. I just ran the installer on a spare machine to see what it's like, I left it with the defult DHCP settings it came up with:

Start IP: 192.168.0.50
End IP: 192.168.0.254

Then when I press next it says that the End IP must be higher than the Start IP!

Changed the Start to 192.168.0.10 and the end to 192.168.0.200 and it works, maybe it's only validating the IP address by the 1st digit in the fourth octet?

Could it actually be validating the final 50 as 500, so the 50 should 050? Being overly clever, or overly stupid.
16th January 2006, 03:21 PM
ajbritton

Re: LNM Quirks

Possibly its doing an ASCII compare. "50" is > "254" whereas "10" < "200".
16th January 2006, 03:41 PM
Ric_

Re: LNM Quirks

I spotted that - went "oh!" and duly changed the range to 10.0.0.50 -> 10.0.0.99

It's the bloody message at the end that's pissing me off!
16th January 2006, 04:31 PM
wesleyw

Re: LNM Quirks

Which is?
16th January 2006, 04:35 PM
indie

Re: LNM Quirks

Quote:

"All your users are belong to us"

;)
16th January 2006, 04:39 PM
wesleyw

Re: LNM Quirks

I can actually believe MS would do that (Probably without the cult phrase all your base are belong to us lol) ;)
22nd January 2006, 01:49 PM
_Rob_

Re: LNM Quirks

Yeah, we had an issue with the IP settings, it didn't like our subnet mask of 255.255.252.0!
30th January 2006, 09:21 AM
petectid

Re: LNM Quirks

Quote:

Originally Posted by _Rob_

Yeah, we had an issue with the IP settings, it didn't like our subnet mask of 255.255.252.0!

I found this Rob I could only get it to use a 24 bit subnet, would not recognise our 22 bit mask, like yours.