DHCP Windows 200 professional

[supercoups]

Does windows 2000 professional need to renew the lease for an IP everytime you restart the workstation? Is there way to stop this? It doesn't get a new IP but it does renew the lease on the existing IP everytime i restart my workstation.
Any thoughts?

Thanks,
JIm

 

[ChicagoTechNet]

it depends on your DHCP settings. if it setup for just one day, it may release and renew on the next day.

Robert Lin, MS-MVP, MCSE & CNE
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[supercoups]

It is setup for one week, but everytime I restart the computer it updates the lease date. For example:

If my IP is 10.100.54.60 and the lease obtained is 9/21/04 11:53am and the lease expire is 10/01/04 11:53am

If I restart in 5 minutes it will be:

Obtained lease: 9/21/04 11:58am
expired lease: 10/01/04 11:58am

Which leads me to beleive that it is renewing the lease on a restart, even though the IP does not actually change.

Thanks,
Jim

 

[ITPangaeaArchitect]

When the comptuer restarts, it actually releases the IP

can't remember what the internals were of it...but basically dhcp remembers the last machine to get that IP so if it comes up like from a erstart it gets the same IP right back and renews the lease

what you set in dhcp is as if the machine were on for that many days, then it would renew the lease

i don't think there's a way around it though..as far as I can think of off the top of my head anyway

this is default behavior though


-Brandon Wilson
MCSE00/03, MCSA:Messaging, MCSA03, A+
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