My DHCP server needs a few minutes before it can assign any ipaddresses and your gateways seems to "give up" after the first few tries. How do I make this work?

26 Jul 2022

 

This article describes what to do when the DHCP server takes a few minutes before it can assign any ipaddresses and when the gateway seems to ''give up'' after a few tries. 

 

APPLICABLE PRODUCTS 

Anybus M-bus Gateways 

 

QUESTION

My DHCP server needs a few minutes before it can assign any ipaddresses and your gateways seems to "give up" after the first few tries. How do I make this work?

 

ANSWER

To change the gateways behaviour please configure the following two options at the [IP] section of the CHIP.INI file:

AUTOIP=0
DHCP_TRIALS=0