-   TCP/IP use_maccaddr_as_id incompatibility?    The Question is:    + DHCP server Option use_macaddr_as_id fails.    N I use the TCPIP DHCP server (UXC V5.3 - ECO 1) in a VMS cluster environment toM  configure static IP-Adresses for about 600 DHCP clients. My Problem is, that N  PCs use different DHCP-IDs when they boot with DOS, Windows and Linux. I want  to ignore the format K therefore and assign the IP address only according to the mac adress. To do M  this, I have to use the server.pcy option "use_macaddr_as_id". But with this E  setting the DHCP service fails to start writing following log entry: M "The policy file 'server.pcy' is (potentially) incompatible with the existing   database. ..." F - Even after I deleted all database files and there is no incompatibleN  information in it (because there is no information at all). This failure doesD  not depend on a special configuration and can be reproduced easily.J I studied all available documentation and am shure that all was configuredO  correctly. Is it a known bug and eventually fixed in a later release, or is it 
  my mistake ? I This problem is very urgent because I fear it would be impossible to find E  another solution that allows to manage this amount of addresses with N  comparable efficiency - I wrote some DCL scripts that generate all data files#  for DNS and DHCP and  update these   services automatically.  The Answer is :   B   Please first look at TCP/IP Services V5.4 and ECO, or (at least);   the application of the current ECO for V5.3.  (As of this ;   writing, ECO 4 is current, and ECO 4 does include updates *   for various problems found within DHCP.)   @   The OpenVMS Wizard is aware of one previous report that may beA   related to this, though additional details would be required to /   establish that similarity with any certainty.    A   As this is an urgent request, please contact the support center A   directly as details of the configuration files and the settings    will be required. 0  Answer written or last revised on  14-APR-2004 