Installed a few 10/100 3com switches in our network, after a while started getting Ip conflict errors. The swithces were getting ip address from our obedient NT DHCP servers, unfortunately the switches are BOOTP enabled they got ips from some DHCP servers, ( I dont know from where as none of our DHCP servers had a reservation for those ips.).
The DHCP started to lease the same address to some wins dhcp enabled clients, which was granted to the switch this resulted in the conflicts.
Still trouble-shooting from where the Swiches took the ip addresses.
Maybe some of you can put some light on it.
Thanks and Regards,
Shaikh Raees Ahmed,
Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer,
Cicso Certified Network Associate
Systems & Network,
IT Division.
