Client loses ip connectivity

[bopritchard]

i have a client workstation (nt 4.0) that will on occassion lose all ability to communicate through my switch...i can do a loopback ping fine...but i can't reach anything else...in my lan or not...as soon as i reserve that ip address on my dhcp serve and force the machine to pick up a NEW ip address...it works fine....for a time, that is.....then it goes right back to the same behaviour

thought the nic was maybe bad for a while...so i replaced the machine...no good...same deal

what in the world is happening

 

[vbrocks]

Can you give it a static address and exclude it on the dhcp server?