[lug] DHCP Question

[George Sexton]

Most likely, it kept track of who the lease was issued from and wanted
to renew from them.

I would try rebooting all of the affected machines.

-----Original Message-----
From: lug-bounces at lug.boulder.co.us
[mailto:lug-bounces at lug.boulder.co.us] On Behalf Of Dan Ferris
Sent: Friday, December 05, 2003 2:12 PM
To: Boulder (Colorado) Linux Users Group -- General Mailing List
Subject: [lug] DHCP Question


Here is some interesting Questions.

Last night, I changed out our Microsoft Windows NT DHCP server for a 
Linux DHCP server running ISC DHCPD.  This morning when I came in, about

a third of the company couldn't talk to the network because their DHCP 
hadn't renewed with the new server.  They are all running some version 
or another of Microsoft Winblows.

I always thought that it didn't matter what computer was a DHCP server 
so long as you only had 1 per subnet.  Is this true?  The old server is 
completely turned off and the service is set to manual.

Is Windows always stupid about DHCP, or is it just me?

Dan

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