In my experience, the Open Transport 2.6 upgrade won't install on any
machine that is not affected by the problem. (You can only install it
on Mac OS 9,  Mac OS 8.6 for PowerMacintosh G4, iBook, and iMac
Slot-loading.)

Usually the machine causing the denial of DHCP service won't be the
one getting the 169.x.x.x address.

John


>Hi Everyone,
>
>I have several of the older non-slot loading iMac's that are running OS
>8.6. Once in a while, we have been getting the IP address to start with
>169.  I've been told to upgrade to Open Transport but I am afraid to since
>Apple says not to on these computers. Has anyone done this and is it o.k.?
>Here is the Apple info.
>
>http://asu.info.apple.com/swupdates.nsf/artnum/n11560
>
>One the other hand, one solution that we did find was to use BootP instead
>of DHCP and manually type in the info. This seems to work, however the
>networking people would prefer that I didn't do this.
>
>Any help is appreciated.
>
>Thanks,
>Sherry

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