{"id":53,"date":"2009-01-30T18:10:14","date_gmt":"2009-01-30T22:10:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dbtricks.com\/?p=53"},"modified":"2010-09-02T07:11:41","modified_gmt":"2010-09-02T11:11:41","slug":"installing-oracle-on-a-machine-with-dhcp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dbtricks.com\/?p=53","title":{"rendered":"Installing Oracle on a machine with DHCP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During Oracle installation on a windows machine that is configured to use DHCP in order to obtain its IP address, the Following message will probably be displayed:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Checking Network Configuration requirements &#8230;<br \/>\nCheck complete. The overall result of this check is: Failed &lt;&lt;&lt;&lt;<br \/>\nProblem: The install has detected that the primary IP address of the system is DHCP-assigned.<br \/>\nRecommendation: Oracle supports installations on systems with DHCP-assigned IP addresses; However, before you can do this, you must configure the Microsoft LoopBack Adapter to be the primary network adapter on the system.\u00a0 See the Installation Guide for more details on installing the software on systems configured with DHCP.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>As the error message say, this due to the fact that you are trying to install Oracle on a machine that is using DHCP to obtain its IP address. You can still install oracle on a machine without a constant IP address. All you need to do is configure the LoopBack adapter:<\/p>\n<p><strong> Install the Loopback adapter<\/strong><br \/>\n1)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Go to the control panel and choose add hardware<br \/>\n2)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The Add Hardware wizard will be displayed, click Next<br \/>\n3)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Choose \u201cYes, I have already connected the hardware\u201d and click Next<br \/>\n4)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 An hardware list will be displayed. Navigate to the bottom of the list and choose \u201cAdd new hardware \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 device\u201d<br \/>\n5)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Choose Install the hardware that I manually select from a list (Advance)\u201d<br \/>\n6)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Choose \u201cNetwork adapter\u201d<br \/>\n7)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Choose \u201cMicrosoft\u201d on the left side of the window and \u201cMicrosoft Loopback Adapter\u201d on the right \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 window\u201d<br \/>\n8)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Click Next and verify that Microsoft Loopback Adapter is about to install and click next again and \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 finish.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Configure the loop back adapter<\/strong><br \/>\n1)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Go to control panel &#8211; network connections, you will see a new network connection.<br \/>\n2)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Choose \u201clocal area connection 2\u201d (the name may vary but basically it is the one we just added) and \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 click properties.<br \/>\n3)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Click on tcp\/ip and then properties.<br \/>\n4)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Enter an IP address and a subnet mask (you can use 1.1.1.2 and subnet 255.255.255.0)<\/p>\n<p>Go to network connection and click on Advanced settings under the Advanced menu and <strong>verify that the loopback adapter is in the first one<\/strong>. (Update: it look like this step is optional because it seems to work in most cases anyway)<\/p>\n<p>Now you can continue your oracle installation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During Oracle installation on a windows machine that is configured to use DHCP in order to obtain its IP address, the Following message will probably be displayed: Checking Network Configuration requirements &#8230; Check complete. The overall result of this check is: Failed &lt;&lt;&lt;&lt; Problem: The install has detected that the primary IP address of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[33,34,107],"class_list":["post-53","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-oracle","tag-dhcp","tag-install","tag-oracle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbtricks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbtricks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbtricks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbtricks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbtricks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/dbtricks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":128,"href":"https:\/\/dbtricks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53\/revisions\/128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbtricks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbtricks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbtricks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}