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
>> >>
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