Doh!

[billroper]

I'd pulled the laptop out of the trunk of the car yesterday to do some work from home after dropping catalana off at the train station. Since I'd be taking it along with me to the downtown office today, I carefully tucked my keycard badge into a pocket of the laptop case.

Except those meetings were canceled due to weather, so I'm in Westchester.

The laptop is on the couch at home.

Fortunately, I was able to borrow a visitor badge.

(And after many trials and tribulations and plugging and unplugging of network cables during a call to tech support, my computer finally got a new IP address from the network's DHCP server. *sheesh* That only killed an hour or so...)

Comments

[kizoku42.livejournal.com]

So, why did you need a new address? I can see why the server would remember it had given you address x.y.z in the past and keep trying to give it to you, but why did you need a new one?

[billroper]

After a restart (which I do every evening as I leave), the computer gets a new IP address from the DHCP server after I log into Windows.

[kizoku42.livejournal.com]

OK, I was taking "new" to mean "different". Most DHCP servers remember your old address until it times out and goes back into the pool. I take it the server was refusing to give you any address at all? Odd. They ever tell you why?

[billroper]

That would have required that they know why there was a problem in the first place.

[gorgeousgary]

Heh...sounds like what often happens to me. I leave from the office for a business trip or con. I dump my badge into the laptop bag. I come back from the trip. I go back to work with my normal everyday briefcase, not the laptop bag.

I have to get a temporary badge to get upstairs...