DHCP issueing wrong address

[Rookie]

Another Network Admin has mentioned to me that they have
seen a DHCP server give out a reserved IP address to the
wrong client, under certain conditions. I am under the
understanding that this is not possible unless the Admin
enters the wrong MAC Address or the NIC is placed in a
different client than intended. The network were have
the disagreement about is a W2K / W2K3 active directory
domain, contain only Windows XP/2K/2K3 boxes. It is a
flat network, with only one DHCP server with one scope.
DHCP/BOOTP traffic can't leave or enter the network, as
the firewalls and router do not pass that type of
traffic. Has anyone every experienced a DHCP server
issuing reserved IP address to the wrong client under the
conditions described above? Is it possible under any
conditions, with the exception of the existance of a
rouge DHCP on the network, or an Admin typing error?

 

[Steven L Umbach]

I have not experienced it myself but the article below may be of interest of a
problem which was supposed to be fixed with a service pack,

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;284145

I also have read of users who have created a scope of only reservations that DHCP
issued some of the "unused" reservations to dhcp clients on the network that did not
have a reservation. --- Steve

http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=...ed%20%20umbach&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wg
-- newsgroup user who experienced this.