My DHCP server isn't working the way I think it should.

I had problems getting a client on the network. The
problem turned out to be DHCP - it wasn't getting an IP
address. I checked the server and while it had several IP
addresses available, it wouldn't assign one to the new
client. I noticed that the most recently added client had
been assigned the highest available IP address, so I
increased the upper limit of available addresses. It
worked; the client was assigned the next IP address - one
above the previous limit. DHCP is working now, and slowly
marching toward the new upper limit without reassigning
lower, unused IP addresses.

How do I get it to reuse IP addresses? As it is, I will
eventually "run out" of addresses again.

TIA,
Jim

RE: DHCP not reusing IP addresses by franzf

franzf
Wed Aug 20 23:18:02 CDT 2003

Jim,

Can you provide additional details regarding the DHCP Server configuration?
What OS are the DHCP clients running?
Can you provide us with the settings under the dhcp server such as IP
range, exceptions, reservations, lease duration, ect.

Franz Foster
Microsoft Technical Support
franzf@online.microsoft.com
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