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Jonathan Stiansen
Asked: 2016-09-16 11:22:10 +0800 CST

Is it possible to have a windows CE static IP assigned with a non-specific gateway?

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First time posted on serverfault. We have a bunch of windows CE devices that hate our DHCP server (likely a bug) but lets ignore that.

Say we can't use DHCP at all. But we have devices that may connect one of two Gateways wirelessly, say one gateway has ip XXX.Y0.1.1 the other has XXX.Y1.1.1 both with a subnetmask 255.255.0.0.

Is there any possible way to set a windows CE machine to have a static IP address, and hardcode in that it would try first, XXX.Y0.1.1 if that doesn't work then XXX.Y1.1.1.

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  1. Best Answer

    I don't know if Windows CE is somewhat different (it shouldn't), but in any Windows system you can assign multiple static IP addresses and gateways to a NIC:

    IP settings

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  2. It is very likely that your problem with DHCP is a symptom of a poorly configured network.

    The two possible gateway IP addresses implies that you have multiple routes to upstream networks. The consequence of not also implementing Spanning Tree Protocol is that you will have packets routing in loops and have broadcast storms on your network.

    With broadcast storms, DHCP will not work reliably.

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