Unknown. Possibly. I have a bunch of HP 2510-48s, and an HP 2400cl for my backbone. I'll have to check that out.
I don't know what I have in my overseas offices. Kurt On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 15:37, Brian Desmond <[email protected]> wrote: > Yep. Do your switches support DHCP Snooping? You can pretty much kill the > problem if they have such a feature. > > Thanks, > Brian Desmond > [email protected] > > c – 312.731.3132 > > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Kurt Buff [mailto:[email protected]] >> Sent: Sunday, February 21, 2010 5:11 PM >> To: NT System Admin Issues >> Subject: Re: DHCP in Win2k3 R2 domain >> >> Yes, but it seems a bit shortsighted in the face I what I've had to deal >> with - >> on at least two occasions I've had people drag personal (linksys, dlink) >> firewalls/routers into work because they "needed" >> them, and really screwed with one of my subnets. >> >> This was back when we were on NT4, and it was not on the subnet with the >> servers, so it didn't DoS the entire office, just that subnet, but still... >> >> Kurt >> >> On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 14:31, Brian Desmond <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> > The converse to the DHCP detection stuff is that if any Windows box comes >> up in the domain with DHCP installed, DHCP won't actually start until >> someone with (by default) Enterprise Admin privs "authorizes" it. >> > >> > >> > >> > Thanks, >> > Brian Desmond >> > [email protected] >> > >> > c – 312.731.3132 >> > >> > >> >> -----Original Message----- >> >> From: Kurt Buff [mailto:[email protected]] >> >> Sent: Sunday, February 21, 2010 3:57 PM >> >> To: NT System Admin Issues >> >> Subject: Re: DHCP in Win2k3 R2 domain >> >> >> >> On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 13:11, Michael B. Smith >> >> <[email protected]> >> >> wrote: >> >> > There is no intrinsic reason for DHCP to be based on Windows. >> >> >> >> No "technical" reason then. As I suspected. >> >> >> >> > There are some "easy of admin" features that I think are nice - >> >> > such as when you build the subnet the wizard prompts you for the >> >> > site-aware DNS and WINS server and the automatic DNS and rDNS >> registrations. >> >> >> >> Explain that a bit more? Doesn't the setting in WinXP (which is what >> >> we're >> >> on) also handle that if set manually during OS installation? >> >> >> >> > But any "modern" (i.e., the last 15 years) DHCP server knows about >> >> > WINS and NBNS node types, etc. etc. >> >> >> >> Right. >> >> >> >> > If DHCP on Windows detects another DHCP server, it'll automatically >> >> > shut itself down to avoid fighting for control. >> >> >> >> That I didn't know. I'm not sure I like that. >> >> >> >> > I prefer running DHCP on Windows - especially in branch offices, I >> >> > can go >> >> one place and control everything and see everything. >> >> >> >> And it makes monitoring easier, too. From a security standpoint, this >> >> is a win - knowing if new MAC addresses are picking up IP addresses >> >> out of the pool is a good thing, and while it's possible to do this >> >> with the Linux DHCP server (even easy, if your scripting skills are >> >> good) it's just one more place to look. >> >> >> >> This is something to consider. >> >> >> >> Thanks, >> >> >> >> Kurt >> >> >> >> ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ >> >> <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ >> > >> > >> > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ >> > <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ >> >> ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ >> <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ >> > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
